African Register of Marine Species (AfReMaS) - Diodora graeca (Linnaeus, 1758)

AfReMaS taxon details

Diodora graeca (Linnaeus, 1758)

Diodora graeca (Linnaeus, 1758)
Specimen from Benalmádena, Spain (actual size 14 mm).

AphiaID

139951 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:139951)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Parent

Diodora J. E. Gray, 1821

Original name

Patella graeca Linnaeus, 1758

Environment

marine, ~~brackish~~, ~~fresh~~, ~~terrestrial~~

Fossil range

recent + fossil

Original description

(of ) Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. [The system of nature through the three kingdoms of nature, according to classes, orders, genera, species, with characters, differences, synonyms, places.]. Impensis Direct. Laurentii Salvii. Holmiae [Stockholm]. 1(10) [iii], 824 p., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/726886
page(s): 784 [details] Available for editors

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Diodora graeca (Linnaeus, 1758). Accessed through: Odido, M.; Appeltans, W.; BelHassen, M.; Mussai, P.; Nsiangango, S.E.; Vandepitte, L.; Wambiji, N.; Zamouri, N. Jiddou, A.M. (Eds) (2025) African Register of Marine Species at: https://marinespecies.org/afremas/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=139951 on 2026-03-24

Regional species database citation

Odido, M.; Appeltans, W.; BelHassen, M.; Mussai, P.; Nsiangango, S.E.; Vandepitte, L.; Wambiji, N.; Zamouri, N. Jiddou, A.M. (Eds) (2026). African Register of Marine Species. Diodora graeca (Linnaeus, 1758). Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/afremas/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=139951 on 2026-03-24

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2004-12-21 15:54:05Z

created

Gofas, Serge

2006-03-15 13:18:55Z

checked

Wambiji, Nina

2008-05-17 14:57:54Z

checked

Gofas, Serge

2018-02-10 11:11:23Z

changed

Bouchet, Philippe

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[clear cache]

original description (of ) Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. [The system of nature through the three kingdoms of nature, according to classes, orders, genera, species, with characters, differences, synonyms, places.]. Impensis Direct. Laurentii Salvii. Holmiae [Stockholm]. 1(10) [iii], 824 p., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/726886
page(s): 784 [details] Available for editors

basis of record Gofas, S.; Le Renard, J.; Bouchet, P. (2001). Mollusca. in: Costello, M.J. et al. (eds), European Register of Marine Species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Patrimoines Naturels. 50: 180-213., available online at http://www.vliz.be/imisdocs/publications/ocrd/254404.pdf [details]

additional source Iljina L. B. (1993). Определитель морских средне-миоценовых гастропод Юго-Западной Евразии [= Handbook for identification of the marine Middle Miocene gastropods of southwestern Eurasia]. Trudy Paleontologicheskogo Instituta RAS. 255: 1-151., available online at https://www.geokniga.org/bookfiles/geokniga-iljina1993opredmorsksrednemiotsengastropodjuvevraziipin255.djvu
page(s): 22, pl. I, fig. 5, 6 [details]

additional source Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. [The system of nature through the three kingdoms of nature, according to classes, orders, genera, species, with characters, differences, synonyms, places.]. Impensis Direct. Laurentii Salvii. Holmiae [Stockholm]. 1(10) [iii], 824 p., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/726886 [details] Available for editors