Biology:Diodora sayi
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Short description: Species of gastropod
| Diodora sayi | |
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| Shell of Diodora sayi (specimen at the Natural History Museum Rotterdam) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Vetigastropoda |
| Order: | Lepetellida |
| Family: | Fissurellidae |
| Genus: | Diodora |
| Species: | D. sayi
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| Binomial name | |
| Diodora sayi (Dall, 1889)
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Diodora sayi is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Fissurellidae, the keyhole limpets.[1]
Description
(Original description) The deep-water specimens of Fissurella (Cremides) alternata var. sayi (synonym of Diodora cayenensis (Lamarck, 1822) ) are generally smaller, of an olivaceous cast, and with the color rays very faint or entirely absent. [2]
Distribution
This species occurs in the Atlantic Ocean off Brazil and the Cape Verde.
References
- ↑ Diodora sayi (Dall, 1889). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species.
- ↑ Dall, W.H. (1889). "Reports on the results of dredging, under the supervision of Alexander Agassiz, in the Gulf of Mexico (1877-78) and in the Caribbean Sea (1879-80), by the U.S. Coast Survey Steamer "Blake", Lieut.-Commander C.D. Sigsbee, U.S.N., and Commander J.R. Bartlett, U.S.N., commanding. XXIX. Report on the Mollusca. Part 2, Gastropoda and Scaphopoda". Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoölogy at Harvard College. 18: 407. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/25505. Retrieved 14 October 2025.
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain:
- Rosenberg, G.; Moretzsohn, F.; García, E. F. (2009). Gastropoda (Mollusca) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 579–699 in: Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas.
- Turgeon, D., Quinn, J. F., Bogan, A. E., Coan, E. V., Hochberg, F. G., Lyons, W. G., Mikkelsen, P. M., Neves, R. J., Roper, C. F. E., Rosenberg, G., Roth, B., Scheltema, A., Thompson, F. G., Vecchione, M., Williams, J. D. (1998). Common and scientific names of aquatic invertebrates from the United States and Canada: mollusks. 2nd ed. American Fisheries Society Special Publication, 26. American Fisheries Society: Bethesda, MD (USA). ISBN 1-888569-01-8. IX, 526 + cd-rom pp
Wikidata ☰ Q3139971 entry
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