Species Diodora ruppellii (Sowerby, 1834)
Compiler and date details
September 2014 - Des Beechey & Winston F. Ponder, Australian Museum, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
December 2012 - Des Beechey, Peter U. Middelfart, Winston F. Ponder & Stephanie Baccarella, Australian Museum, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
- Fissurella ruppellii Sowerby, G.B. (1st) 1834. Characters of new species of Mollusca and Conchifera collected by Mr Cuming. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1834(2): 6-128 [128].
Type data:
Status unknown, ad insulam Neus; in Sinu Arabico. - Diodora nigriradiata 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. 15, sp. 81].
Generic Combinations
- Diodora rupellii (Sowerby, 1834). —
Subba Rao, N.V. 2003. Indian Seashells (Part 1). Records of the Zoological Survey of India, Occasional Paper (192): 1-416 [67]
Distribution
Extra Distribution Information
Indo Pacific, from Red Sea to Hawaiian Islands. In Australia, known only from Coral Sea (AMS C.223753). Queensland record is of doubtful identification.
IMCRA
Northeast Province (18)
Other Regions
Coral Sea Islands Territory
Ecological Descriptors
Marine.
General References
Barash, A. & Danin, Z. 1972. The Indo-Pacific species of Mollusca in the Mediterranean and notes on a collection from the Suez Canal. Israel Journal of Zoology 21: 301-374 [303-304, fig. 2]
Hedley, C. 1910. The marine fauna of Queensland. Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science 12: 329-371 [Date published December] [352]
Subba Rao, N.V. 2003. Indian Seashells (Part 1). Records of the Zoological Survey of India, Occasional Paper (192): 1-416 [67]
Wilson, B. 1993. Australian Marine Shells. Prosobranch Gastropods. Kallaroo, Western Australia : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 1 408 pp. [52, pl. 6, fig. 18a-b] (Relies on Hedley (1910) for the presence of the species in Australia)
History of changes
Published | As part of group | Action Date | Action Type | Compiler(s) |
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22-Jan-2015 | FISSURELLOIDEA | 22-Dec-2014 | MODIFIED | Mr Des Beechey (AM) Stephanie Baccarella (AM) Dr Peter Middelfart (AM) Ms Anouk Mututantri (AM) Dr Winston Ponder (AM) |
21-Nov-2013 | MODIFIED |