WoRMS taxon details
Diaphana minuta T. Brown, 1827
139557 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:139557)
accepted
Species
Amphisphyra expansa Jeffreys, 1865 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Bulla debilis A. Gould, 1840 · unaccepted
Bulla hyalina W. Turton, 1834 · unaccepted (invalid; not Gray, 1826)
Bulla subangulata Møller, 1842 · unaccepted
Diaphana brunnea Dall, 1919 · unaccepted
Diaphana candida T. Brown, 1827 · unaccepted (synonym)
Diaphana expansa (Jeffreys, 1865) · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Diaphana hyalina (W. Turton, 1834) · unaccepted
Diaphana hyalina var. spirata Odhner, 1907 · unaccepted
Diaphana pellucida T. Brown, 1827 · unaccepted
Diaphana watanabei T. Habe, 1976 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Utriculus tomlinianus Marshall, 1912 · unaccepted
marine
Brown, T. (1827). Illustrations of the conchology of Great Britain and Ireland. Drawn from nature. <em>W.H. Lizars and D. Lizars, Edinburgh and S. Highley, London.</em> 144 pp., 52 pls., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/127868
page(s): pl. 38 fig. 7-8 [details]
page(s): pl. 38 fig. 7-8 [details]
Note Loch Torridon, Scotland
From editor or global species database
Type locality Loch Torridon, Scotland [details]
Distribution North Pacific to Japan and British Columbia, possibly to Cedros Island, Baja California, Mexico; 0–327 m. 70.67°N to...
Distribution North Pacific to Japan and British Columbia, possibly to Cedros Island, Baja California, Mexico; 0–327 m. 70.67°N to 42°N; 70.2°W to 45°W. Western Atlantic: Canada: Gulf of St. Lawrence, Quebec, Nova Scotia; USA: Maine, Massachusetts, Connecticut. Confusion with Diaphana californica makes the range of D. minuta in the northeast Pacific uncertain. [details]
MolluscaBase eds. (2024). MolluscaBase. Diaphana minuta T. Brown, 1827. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=139557 on 2024-04-16
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original description
Brown, T. (1827). Illustrations of the conchology of Great Britain and Ireland. Drawn from nature. <em>W.H. Lizars and D. Lizars, Edinburgh and S. Highley, London.</em> 144 pp., 52 pls., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/127868
page(s): pl. 38 fig. 7-8 [details]
original description (of Diaphana pellucida T. Brown, 1827) Brown, T. (1827). Illustrations of the conchology of Great Britain and Ireland. Drawn from nature. <em>W.H. Lizars and D. Lizars, Edinburgh and S. Highley, London.</em> 144 pp., 52 pls., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/127868
page(s): pl. 38 fig. 7-8 [details]
original description (of Bulla hyalina W. Turton, 1834) Turton W. (1834). Description of some nondescript and rare British species of shells. <i>Magazine of Natural History 7</i>: 350-353, available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2351800
page(s): 353 [details]
original description (of Bulla debilis A. Gould, 1840) Gould, A. A. (1840). Descriptions of thirteen new species of shells. <em>American Journal of Science and Arts.</em> (1) 38: 196-197., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/30966509
page(s): 196. [details]
original description (of Bulla subangulata Møller, 1842) Möller, H. P. C. (1842). Index Molluscorum Groenlandiae. <em>Naturhistorisk Tidsskrift.</em> 4: 76-97 [Copenhagen]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2322910 [details]
original description (of Amphisphyra expansa Jeffreys, 1865) Jeffreys, J. G. (1862-1869). <i>British conchology</i>. Vol. 1: pp. cxiv + 341 [1862]. Vol. 2: pp. 479 [1864]. Vol. 3: pp. 394 [1865]. Vol. 4: pp. 487 [1867]. Vol. 5: pp. 259 [1869]. London, van Voorst. , available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/55187
page(s): 330-332 [details]
original description (of Diaphana candida T. Brown, 1827) Brown, T. (1827). Illustrations of the conchology of Great Britain and Ireland. Drawn from nature. <em>W.H. Lizars and D. Lizars, Edinburgh and S. Highley, London.</em> 144 pp., 52 pls., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/127868
page(s): pl. 38 fig. 13-14 [details]
original description (of Diaphana brunnea Dall, 1919) Dall, W. H. (1919). Descriptions of new species of Mollusca from the North Pacific Ocean in the collection of the United States National Museum. <em>Proceedings of the United States National Museum.</em> 56 (2295): 293-371., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/7766313 [details]
original description (of Diaphana watanabei T. Habe, 1976) Habe, T. (1976). Eight new and little known cephalaspid Opisthobranchia from Japan. <em>Venus, Tokyo.</em> 35(4): 151-157, pl. 1., available online at https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/venusjjm/35/4/35_KJ00004342303/_pdf
page(s): 151, pl. 1, fig. 7 [details]
original description (of Diaphana hyalina var. spirata Odhner, 1907) Odhner, N.H. (1907). Northern and Arctic invertebrates in the collection of the Swedish State Museum (Riksmuseum). III. Opisthobranchia and Pteropoda. <em>Kungliga Svenska Vetenskaps-Akademiens Handlingar.</em> 41: 1-118. [details]
original description (of Utriculus tomlinianus Marshall, 1912) Marshall, J. T. (1911-1912). Additions to British Conchology [Part 7]. <em>Journal of Conchology.</em> 13: 179-190 [April 1911]; 192-209 [July 1911]; 223-231 [October 1911]; 294-306 [April 1912], 324-338 [July 1912]., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/31601491
page(s): 334, pl. 5 fig. 4 [details]
basis of record Ohnheiser, L. T.; Malaquias, M. A. E. (2014). The family Diaphanidae (Gastropoda: Heterobranchia: Cephalaspidea) in Europe, with a redescription of the enigmatic species <em>Colobocephalus</em> <em>costellatus</em> M. Sars, 1870. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 3774(6): 501-522., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3774.6.1 [details] Available for editors
[request]
additional source Valdés A. (2019). Northeast Pacific benthic shelled sea slugs. <em>Zoosymposia.</em> 13: 242-304., available online at http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zoosymposia.13.1.21
page(s): 261, fig. 9B [details]
additional source Schiøtte T. (1998) A taxonomic revision of the genus <i>Diaphana</i> Brown, 1827, including a discussion of the phylogeny and zoogeography of the genus (Mollusca: Opisthobranchia). <i>Steenstrupia</i> 24(1): 77-140. [details]
additional source Rosenberg, G. 1992. <i>Encyclopedia of Seashells</i>. Dorset: New York. 224 pp.
page(s): 116 [details]
page(s): pl. 38 fig. 7-8 [details]
original description (of Diaphana pellucida T. Brown, 1827) Brown, T. (1827). Illustrations of the conchology of Great Britain and Ireland. Drawn from nature. <em>W.H. Lizars and D. Lizars, Edinburgh and S. Highley, London.</em> 144 pp., 52 pls., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/127868
page(s): pl. 38 fig. 7-8 [details]
original description (of Bulla hyalina W. Turton, 1834) Turton W. (1834). Description of some nondescript and rare British species of shells. <i>Magazine of Natural History 7</i>: 350-353, available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2351800
page(s): 353 [details]
original description (of Bulla debilis A. Gould, 1840) Gould, A. A. (1840). Descriptions of thirteen new species of shells. <em>American Journal of Science and Arts.</em> (1) 38: 196-197., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/30966509
page(s): 196. [details]
original description (of Bulla subangulata Møller, 1842) Möller, H. P. C. (1842). Index Molluscorum Groenlandiae. <em>Naturhistorisk Tidsskrift.</em> 4: 76-97 [Copenhagen]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2322910 [details]
original description (of Amphisphyra expansa Jeffreys, 1865) Jeffreys, J. G. (1862-1869). <i>British conchology</i>. Vol. 1: pp. cxiv + 341 [1862]. Vol. 2: pp. 479 [1864]. Vol. 3: pp. 394 [1865]. Vol. 4: pp. 487 [1867]. Vol. 5: pp. 259 [1869]. London, van Voorst. , available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/55187
page(s): 330-332 [details]
original description (of Diaphana candida T. Brown, 1827) Brown, T. (1827). Illustrations of the conchology of Great Britain and Ireland. Drawn from nature. <em>W.H. Lizars and D. Lizars, Edinburgh and S. Highley, London.</em> 144 pp., 52 pls., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/127868
page(s): pl. 38 fig. 13-14 [details]
original description (of Diaphana brunnea Dall, 1919) Dall, W. H. (1919). Descriptions of new species of Mollusca from the North Pacific Ocean in the collection of the United States National Museum. <em>Proceedings of the United States National Museum.</em> 56 (2295): 293-371., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/7766313 [details]
original description (of Diaphana watanabei T. Habe, 1976) Habe, T. (1976). Eight new and little known cephalaspid Opisthobranchia from Japan. <em>Venus, Tokyo.</em> 35(4): 151-157, pl. 1., available online at https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/venusjjm/35/4/35_KJ00004342303/_pdf
page(s): 151, pl. 1, fig. 7 [details]
original description (of Diaphana hyalina var. spirata Odhner, 1907) Odhner, N.H. (1907). Northern and Arctic invertebrates in the collection of the Swedish State Museum (Riksmuseum). III. Opisthobranchia and Pteropoda. <em>Kungliga Svenska Vetenskaps-Akademiens Handlingar.</em> 41: 1-118. [details]
original description (of Utriculus tomlinianus Marshall, 1912) Marshall, J. T. (1911-1912). Additions to British Conchology [Part 7]. <em>Journal of Conchology.</em> 13: 179-190 [April 1911]; 192-209 [July 1911]; 223-231 [October 1911]; 294-306 [April 1912], 324-338 [July 1912]., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/31601491
page(s): 334, pl. 5 fig. 4 [details]
basis of record Ohnheiser, L. T.; Malaquias, M. A. E. (2014). The family Diaphanidae (Gastropoda: Heterobranchia: Cephalaspidea) in Europe, with a redescription of the enigmatic species <em>Colobocephalus</em> <em>costellatus</em> M. Sars, 1870. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 3774(6): 501-522., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3774.6.1 [details] Available for editors
[request] additional source Valdés A. (2019). Northeast Pacific benthic shelled sea slugs. <em>Zoosymposia.</em> 13: 242-304., available online at http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zoosymposia.13.1.21
page(s): 261, fig. 9B [details]
additional source Schiøtte T. (1998) A taxonomic revision of the genus <i>Diaphana</i> Brown, 1827, including a discussion of the phylogeny and zoogeography of the genus (Mollusca: Opisthobranchia). <i>Steenstrupia</i> 24(1): 77-140. [details]
additional source Rosenberg, G. 1992. <i>Encyclopedia of Seashells</i>. Dorset: New York. 224 pp.
page(s): 116 [details]
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
From editor or global species database
Distribution North Pacific to Japan and British Columbia, possibly to Cedros Island, Baja California, Mexico; 0–327 m. 70.67°N to 42°N; 70.2°W to 45°W. Western Atlantic: Canada: Gulf of St. Lawrence, Quebec, Nova Scotia; USA: Maine, Massachusetts, Connecticut. Confusion with Diaphana californica makes the range of D. minuta in the northeast Pacific uncertain. [details]Type locality Loch Torridon, Scotland [details]
From other sources
Dimensions maximum size of 3 to 5 mm in length [details]Habitat bathyal and circalittoral of the Gulf and estuary [details]
| Language | Name | |
|---|---|---|
| Dutch | glashorengewone glashoren | [details] |
| English | weak paper-bubblebrown paper-bubbleArctic paper-bubbleArctic paperbubble | [details] |
| German | Enggenabelte ZwergfässchenschneckeArktische Papierblase | [details] |
| Japanese | アワツブガイ [from synonym] | [details] |
To Barcode of Life (7 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication) (from synonym Diaphana watanabei T. Habe, 1976)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (20 publications) (from synonym Diaphana expansa (Jeffreys, 1865))
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (25 publications)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (3 publications) (from synonym Diaphana candida T. Brown, 1827)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (3 publications) (from synonym Diaphana brunnea Dall, 1919)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (35 publications) (from synonym Diaphana hyalina (W. Turton, 1834))
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (6 publications) (from synonym Bulla subangulata Møller, 1842)
To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL) (from synonym Diaphana watanabei T. Habe, 1976)
To European Nucleotide Archive (ENA)
To GB Mollusca Types (Utriculus tomlinianus Marshall, 1912; Holotype; NMW.1953.183.00002) (from synonym Utriculus tomlinianus Marshall, 1912)
To GenBank (3 nucleotides; 2 proteins)
To PESI (from synonym Diaphana expansa (Jeffreys, 1865))
To PESI
To PESI (from synonym Amphisphyra expansa Jeffreys, 1865)
To PESI (from synonym Diaphana candida T. Brown, 1827)
To PESI (from synonym Diaphana pellucida T. Brown, 1827)
To PESI (from synonym Bulla hyalina W. Turton, 1834)
To PESI (from synonym Bulla debilis A. Gould, 1840)
To PESI (from synonym Diaphana hyalina (W. Turton, 1834))
To PESI (from synonym Diaphana hyalina var. spirata Odhner, 1907)
To PESI (from synonym Diaphana brunnea Dall, 1919)
To PESI (from synonym Diaphana watanabei T. Habe, 1976)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection (from synonym Diaphana brunnea Dall, 1919)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection (from synonym Amphisphyra expansa Jeffreys, 1865)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection
To ITIS
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication) (from synonym Diaphana watanabei T. Habe, 1976)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (20 publications) (from synonym Diaphana expansa (Jeffreys, 1865))
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (25 publications)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (3 publications) (from synonym Diaphana candida T. Brown, 1827)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (3 publications) (from synonym Diaphana brunnea Dall, 1919)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (35 publications) (from synonym Diaphana hyalina (W. Turton, 1834))
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (6 publications) (from synonym Bulla subangulata Møller, 1842)
To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL) (from synonym Diaphana watanabei T. Habe, 1976)
To European Nucleotide Archive (ENA)
To GB Mollusca Types (Utriculus tomlinianus Marshall, 1912; Holotype; NMW.1953.183.00002) (from synonym Utriculus tomlinianus Marshall, 1912)
To GenBank (3 nucleotides; 2 proteins)
To PESI (from synonym Diaphana expansa (Jeffreys, 1865))
To PESI
To PESI (from synonym Amphisphyra expansa Jeffreys, 1865)
To PESI (from synonym Diaphana candida T. Brown, 1827)
To PESI (from synonym Diaphana pellucida T. Brown, 1827)
To PESI (from synonym Bulla hyalina W. Turton, 1834)
To PESI (from synonym Bulla debilis A. Gould, 1840)
To PESI (from synonym Diaphana hyalina (W. Turton, 1834))
To PESI (from synonym Diaphana hyalina var. spirata Odhner, 1907)
To PESI (from synonym Diaphana brunnea Dall, 1919)
To PESI (from synonym Diaphana watanabei T. Habe, 1976)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection (from synonym Diaphana brunnea Dall, 1919)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection (from synonym Amphisphyra expansa Jeffreys, 1865)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection
To ITIS
