Diodora aguayoi

Diodora aguayoi
Diodora aguayoi
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Vetigastropoda
Order:	Lepetellida
Family:	Fissurellidae
Genus:	Diodora
Species:	D. aguayoi
Binomial name
Diodora aguayoi Pérez Farfante, 1943 [1]

Diodora aguayoi is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Fissurellidae, the keyhole limpets. ^[2]

Description

The size of the shell reaches 22 mm. This sea snail is a broadcast spawner beginning as embryos maturing into planktonic trocophore larvae then juvenile veligers and finally becoming fully grown adults. ^[3]

Distribution

This species occurs in the Gulf of Mexico, the Caribbean Sea and off Bermuda and Barbados at depths of 50-823m. ^[3]

References

1. Pérez Farfante, I. 1943. The genus Diodora in the Western Atlantic. Johnsonia 1(11): 1–20
2. Diodora aguayoi Pérez Farfante, 1943 . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species  on 6 April 2013.
3. "Diodora aguayoi". www.sealifebase.se. Retrieved 14 November 2025.

• Rosenberg, G., F. Moretzsohn, and E. F. García. 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. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas.
• Turgeon, D.D., et al. 1998. Common and scientific names of aquatic invertebrates of the United States and Canada. American Fisheries Society Special Publication 26 page(s): 57

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External links

• "Diodora aguayoi". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 16 January 2019.