Diaphana minuta T. Brown, 1827
Superdomain | Biota | |
Kingdom | Animalia | |
Phylum | Mollusca | |
Class | Gastropoda | |
Subclass | Heterobranchia | |
Infraclass | Euthyneura | |
Subterclass | Tectipleura | |
Order | Cephalaspidea | |
Superfamily | Cylichnoidea | |
Family | Diaphanidae | |
Subfamily | Diaphaninae | |
Genus | Diaphana | |
Species | Diaphana minuta T. Brown, 1827 | |
| Classification according to Bouchet et al. (2017) Taxonomic source: World Register of Marine Species (AphiaID: 139557). | ||
- Amphisphyra expansa Jeffreys, 1865
- Bulla debilis Gould, 1840
- Bulla hyalina Turton, 1834
- Bulla subangulata Möller, 1842
- Diaphana brunnea Dall, 1919
- Diaphana candida T. Brown, 1827
- Diaphana expansa (Jeffreys, 1865)
- Diaphana hyalina (Turton, 1834)
- Diaphana hyalina spirata Odhner, 1907
- Diaphana pellucida T. Brown, 1827
- Diaphana watanabei Habe, 1976
- Retusa pellucida (Brown, 1827)
Description
Biology
Etymology
- Diaphana. From Latin “diaphanus”, from Greek “diaphanēs”, from “diaphainein”, to show through, from “dia-“, through + “phainein”, to show.
- Minuta. From Latin “minutus”, little, small, tiny.
Distribution
| Sources: | |
 : OBIS : GROC 2010-2011 : Enric Madrenas : João Pedro Silva : Bernard Picton : GBIF.ORG |  : OPK : VIMAR : Manuel Ballesteros. : M@re Nostrum : Altres fonts : Marine Regions |
References for the species: Diaphana minuta
- Cantabria: Hidalgo (1917), Pruvot-Fol (1954).
Portugal: Nordsieck (1972).
Galicia: Cadée (1968), Rolán (1983).
Andalucía (Med.): Peñas et al. (in press).
Catalunya: Altimira (1977b).
Canarias: Pruvot-Fol (1954), Nordsieck (1972), Nordsieck and García-Talavera (1979), Ortea et al. (2001), Moro et al. (2003).
Madeira: McAndrew (1852, as Amphisphyra hyalina), Nordsieck and García-Talavera (1979, as Micromelo minuta).
Sources: Cervera et al., 2004, Ballesteros, 2007 & 2016, McDonald, 2006 and other sources.
Abundance
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Further reading
Cite this article as:
Ballesteros, Manuel, Enric Madrenas, Miquel Pontes (2021) "Diaphana minuta" in OPK-Opistobranquis. Published: 14/10/2014. Accessed: 17/04/2021. Available at (https://opistobranquis.info/en/0XlDB)
