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Diaphana T. Brown, 1827

Diaphana minuta
Diaphana minuta

137894  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:137894)

  1. Biota
  2. Animalia (Kingdom)
  3. Mollusca (Phylum)
  4. Gastropoda (Class)
  5. Heterobranchia (Subclass)
  6. Euthyneura (Infraclass)
  7. Tectipleura (Subterclass)
  8. Cephalaspidea (Order)
  9. Cylichnoidea (Superfamily)
  10. Diaphanidae (Family)
  11. Diaphaninae (Subfamily)
  12. Diaphana (Genus)
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Genus
Diaphana candida T. Brown, 1827 accepted as Diaphana minuta T. Brown, 1827 (type by subsequent designation)
Diaphanna [sic] · unaccepted (misspelling of Diaphana by...)  
misspelling of Diaphana by Petterd, 1886

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  1. Species Diaphana abyssalis Schiøtte, 1998
  2. Species Diaphana anderssoni (Strebel, 1908)
  3. Species Diaphana assula (Deshayes, 1862) †
  4. Species Diaphana brazieri Angas, 1877
  5. Species Diaphana californica Dall, 1919
  6. Species Diaphana caribaea Espinosa, Ortea & Fernández-Garcés, 2001
  7. Species Diaphana cretica (Forbes, 1844)
  8. Species Diaphana flava (R. B. Watson, 1897)
  9. Species Diaphana glacialis Odhner, 1907
  10. Species Diaphana globosa (Lovén, 1846)
  11. Species Diaphana haini K. Linse & Schiøtte, 2002
  12. Species Diaphana hiemalis (Couthouy, 1839)
  13. Species Diaphana inflata (Strebel, 1908)
  14. Species Diaphana lactea (Jeffreys, 1877)
  15. Species Diaphana makarovi Gorbunov, 1946
  16. Species Diaphana marshalli (Sykes, 1904)
  17. Species Diaphana mauretaniensis Schiøtte, 1998
  18. Species Diaphana minuta T. Brown, 1827
  19. Species Diaphana moloti (Cossmann, 1907) †
  20. Species Diaphana pacifica Schiøtte, 1998
  21. Species Diaphana paessleri (Strebel, 1905)
  22. Species Diaphana pfefferi (Strebel, 1908)
  23. Species Diaphana pulchella (Deshayes, 1863) †
  24. Species Diaphana tasmanica (C. E. Beddome, 1883)
  25. Species Diaphana umbilicata (Murdoch & Suter, 1906)
  26. Subgenus Diaphana (Utriculus) T. Brown, 1844 accepted as Retusa T. Brown, 1827 (unaccepted > superseded rank)
    1. Species Diaphana (Utriculus) gemma A. E. Verrill, 1880 accepted as Roxania semilaevis (G. Seguenza, 1880) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
  27. Species Diaphana brunnea Dall, 1919 accepted as Diaphana minuta T. Brown, 1827
  28. Species Diaphana candida T. Brown, 1827 accepted as Diaphana minuta T. Brown, 1827 (synonym)
  29. Species Diaphana expansa (Jeffreys, 1865) accepted as Diaphana minuta T. Brown, 1827 (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
  30. Species Diaphana extrema Thiele, 1912 accepted as Diaphana paessleri (Strebel, 1905)
  31. Species Diaphana gemma A. E. Verrill, 1880 accepted as Roxania semilaevis (G. Seguenza, 1880) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
  32. Species Diaphana hyalina (W. Turton, 1834) accepted as Diaphana minuta T. Brown, 1827
  33. Species Diaphana jonica di Geronimo, 1974 accepted as Diaphana lactea (Jeffreys, 1877)
  34. Species Diaphana kerguelensis Thiele, 1912 accepted as Diaphana paessleri (Strebel, 1905)
  35. Species Diaphana pellucida T. Brown, 1827 accepted as Diaphana minuta T. Brown, 1827
  36. Species Diaphana quadrata (Monterosato, 1874) accepted as Colpodaspis pusilla M. Sars, 1870
  37. Species Diaphana sakuraii T. Habe, 1976 accepted as Diaphana brazieri Angas, 1877 (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
  38. Species Diaphana seguenzae (R. B. Watson, 1886) accepted as Toledonia seguenzae (R. B. Watson, 1886) (unaccepted > superseded combination)
  39. Species Diaphana seguenzai [sic] accepted as Diaphana seguenzae (R. B. Watson, 1886) accepted as Toledonia seguenzae (R. B. Watson, 1886) (misspelling)
  40. Species Diaphana tibai T. Habe, 1976 accepted as Diaphana hiemalis (Couthouy, 1839) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
  41. Species Diaphana vedelsbyae Schiøtte, 1989 accepted as Diaphana makarovi Gorbunov, 1946
  42. Species Diaphana watanabei T. Habe, 1976 accepted as Diaphana minuta T. Brown, 1827 (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
  43. Species Diaphana floridana Dall, 1927 (uncertain > nomen dubium)
  44. Species Diaphana lottae K. J. Bush, 1893 (uncertain > nomen dubium)
marine
Brown, T. (1827). Illustrations of the conchology of Great Britain and Ireland. Drawn from nature. W.H. Lizars and D. Lizars, Edinburgh and S. Highley, London. 144 pp., 52 pls., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/127868
page(s): pl. 38 [details] 

(of Diaphanna [sic]) Petterd, W. F. (1886). New species of Tasmanian marine shells. Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania for 1885. 320-321., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/31752357 [details] 
MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Diaphana T. Brown, 1827. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=137894 on 2025-04-07
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2004-12-21 15:54:05Z
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Gofas, Serge
2010-08-24 11:21:16Z
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Tran, Bastien
2013-04-22 14:39:14Z
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Bouchet, Philippe
2017-09-26 03:45:50Z
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Bouchet, Philippe

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Nomenclature

original description Brown, T. (1827). Illustrations of the conchology of Great Britain and Ireland. Drawn from nature. W.H. Lizars and D. Lizars, Edinburgh and S. Highley, London. 144 pp., 52 pls., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/127868
page(s): pl. 38 [details] 

original description (of Prodiaphana Chaban, 1996) Chaban, E.M. (1996). Opistobranch molluscs of the family Diaphanidae (Gastropoda. Opisthobranchia) of Russian seas [In Russian]. Ruthenica. 6(2): 127-148.
page(s): 140 [details] 

original description (of Amphisphyra Lovén, 1846) Lovén, S. L. (1846). Index Molluscorum litora Scandinaviae occidentalia habitantium. Öfversigt af Kongliga Vetenskaps Akademiens Förhandlingar. (1846): 134-160, 182-204. [Offprint: pp. 1-50]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/39077288 [details] 

original description (of Austrodiaphana Pilsbry, 1895) Pilsbry, H. A. (1893-1895). Manual of conchology, structural and systematic, with illustrations of the species. Ser. 1. Vol. 15: Polyplacophora (Chitons). Acanthochitidae, Cryptoplacidae and appendix. Tectibranchiata. pp 1-463, pls 1-58 [pls. 51-58 never issued]. Philadelphia, published by the Conchological Section, Academy of Natural Sciences. [pp. 1-64, pls. 1-10, Nov. 16, 1893; pp. 65-132, pls. 11-17, Mar. 19, 1894; pp. 133-180, pls. 18-42, Jul. 27, 1894; pp. 181-436, pls. 43-50, 59-61, Feb. 2, 1895]. , available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/63222 [details] 

original description (of Physema H. Adams & A. Adams, 1858) Adams, H. & Adams, A. (1853-1858). The genera of Recent Mollusca; arranged according to their organization. London, van Voorst. Vol. 1: xl + 484 pp.; vol. 2: 661 pp.; vol. 3: 138 pls. [Published in parts: Vol. 1: i-xl (1858), 1-256 (1853), 257-484 (1854). Vol. 2: 1-92 (1854), 93-284 (1855), 285-412 (1856), 413-540 (1857), 541-661 (1858). Vol. 3: pl. 1-32 (1853), 33-72 (1954), 73-96 (1855), 97-112 (1856), 113-128 (1857), 129-138 (1858)]. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/3782650
page(s): Vol. 2: 21. [details] 

original description (of Diaphanna [sic]) Petterd, W. F. (1886). New species of Tasmanian marine shells. Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania for 1885. 320-321., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/31752357 [details] 

basis of record Schiøtte T. (1998) A taxonomic revision of the genus Diaphana Brown, 1827, including a discussion of the phylogeny and zoogeography of the genus (Mollusca: Opisthobranchia). Steenstrupia 24(1): 77-140. [details] 

Other

additional source Ohnheiser, L. T.; Malaquias, M. A. E. (2014). The family Diaphanidae (Gastropoda: Heterobranchia: Cephalaspidea) in Europe, with a redescription of the enigmatic species Colobocephalus costellatus M. Sars, 1870. Zootaxa. 3774(6): 501-522., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3774.6.1 [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

subsequent type designation Pilsbry, H. A. (1893-1895). Manual of conchology, structural and systematic, with illustrations of the species. Ser. 1. Vol. 15: Polyplacophora (Chitons). Acanthochitidae, Cryptoplacidae and appendix. Tectibranchiata. pp 1-463, pls 1-58 [pls. 51-58 never issued]. Philadelphia, published by the Conchological Section, Academy of Natural Sciences. [pp. 1-64, pls. 1-10, Nov. 16, 1893; pp. 65-132, pls. 11-17, Mar. 19, 1894; pp. 133-180, pls. 18-42, Jul. 27, 1894; pp. 181-436, pls. 43-50, 59-61, Feb. 2, 1895]. , available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/63222
page(s): 280 [details] 

 
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