Diodora demartiniorum

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Diodora demartiniorum
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Vetigastropoda
Order: Lepetellida
Family: Fissurellidae
Genus: Diodora
Species:
D. demartiniorum
Binomial name
Diodora demartiniorum
Buzzurro & Russo, 2004 [1]

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

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Description

The size of the shell varies between 20 mm and 37 mm. As broadcast spawners, their embryos develop into planktonic trocophore larvae and then into juvenile veligers before becoming grown adults. [3]

Distribution

This species was found in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea off Djerba, Tunisia.

References

  1. ↑ Buzzurro G. & Russo P., 2005 : Notes and comments on the Mediterranean species of the genus Diodora Gray, 1821 (Archeogastropoda, Fissurellidae) with a description of a new species Triton 10: 1–9
  2. ↑ Diodora demartiniorum Buzzurro & Russo, 2004 . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species  on 7 January 2013.
  3. ↑ "Diodora demartiniorum". www.sealifebase.se. Retrieved 29 April 2025.


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