Species Diodora jukesii (Reeve, 1850)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Fissurella jukesii Reeve, L.A. 1850. Monograph of the genus Fissurella. pls 1-16 in Reeve, L.A. (ed). Conchologia Iconica. London : L. Reeve & Co. Vol. 6. [pl. 7, sp. 45].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, coast of Australia.
• Fissurella fimbriata Reeve, L.A. 1850. Monograph of the genus Fissurella. pls 1-16 in Reeve, L.A. (ed). Conchologia Iconica. London : L. Reeve & Co. Vol. 6. [pl. 14, fig. 104].
• Fissurella similis Sowerby, G.B. 1862. Thesaurus Conchyliorum, or monographs of genera of shells. London : Sowerby Vol. 3. [pl. 241, fig. 143].
• Diodora plicifera Thiele, J. 1930. Gastropoda und Bivalvia. pp. 561-596 in Michaelsen, W. & Hartmayer, R. (eds). Die Fauna Südwest-Australiens. Jena : Gustav Fischer Vol. 5. [562].

  Type data:

   Holotype WAM 67368, station 1, NW of Middle Bluff, Sharks [Shark] Bay, north-west Australia, 7-8 m, rocks and coral.
• Diodora nigropunctata Thiele, J. 1930. Gastropoda und Bivalvia. pp. 561-596 in Michaelsen, W. & Hartmayer, R. (eds). Die Fauna Südwest-Australiens. Jena : Gustav Fischer Vol. 5. [563].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, Sharks Bay, Western Australia.
• Diodora rugosa Thiele, J. 1930. Gastropoda und Bivalvia. pp. 561-596, 1 pl. (pl. 4) in Michaelsen, W. & Hartmeyer, R. Die Fauna Südwest-Australiens. Ergebnisse der Hamburger südwest-australischen Forschungsreise 1905 herausgegeben von Prof. Dr. W. Michaelson und Prof. Dr. R. Hartmeyer. Jena : Gustav Fischer Vol. 5(8). [562].
• Elegidion occiduus Cotton, B.C. 1930. Fissurellidae from the 'Flindersian' Region, Southern Australia. Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 4(2): 219-236 [220].

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Ponder, W.F. 1978. The unfigured Mollusca of J. Thiele. 1930 published in Die Fauna Sudwest-Australiens. Records of the Western Australian Museum 6(4): 423-441 [427]

Generic Combinations

• Diodora jukesii (Reeve, 1850). —
  Wilson, B. 1993. Australian Marine Shells. Prosobranch Gastropods. Kallaroo, Western Australia : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 1 408 pp. [52, pl. 6, figs 25a-c]

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Intertidal, marine.

General References

Cernohorsky, W.O. 1978. Tropical Pacific marine shells. Sydney : Pacific Publications 352 pp., 68 pls. [29, pl. 4, fig. 1]

Ponder, W.F. 1978. The unfigured Mollusca of J. Thiele. 1930 published in Die Fauna Sudwest-Australiens. Records of the Western Australian Museum 6(4): 423-441 [426-427] (as Diodora nigropunctata Thiele, 1930)

Wilson, B. 1993. Australian Marine Shells. Prosobranch Gastropods. Kallaroo, Western Australia : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 1 408 pp. [52, pl. 6, figs 25a-c] (Lists Diodora occidua as a full species, but had apparently not seen Ponder (1978))

Common Name References

Allan, J.K. 1950. Australian shells: with related animals living in the sea, in freshwater and on the land. Melbourne : Georgian House xix, 470 pp., 45 pls, 112 text figs. [52, fig. 2] (as Fissuridea jukesii) (Jukes Keyhole Limpet)

Wilson, B. 2002. A handbook to Australian seashells on seashores east to west and north to south. Sydney : Reed New Holland 185 pp. [88, pl. 89C] (Latticed Keyhole Limpet)

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