Gastropoda - Lepetellida - Fissurellidae
Alternative combinations: Fissurella graeca, Patella graeca
Synonyms: Diodora apertura Montagu 1803, Patella apertura Montagu 1803
Belongs to Diodora according to S. N. Nielsen 2013
See also Deshayes 1824, Hendy 2007 and Lozouet et al. 2001
Sister taxa: Diodora (Diodora), Diodora arnoldi, Diodora aspera, Diodora auroraensis, Diodora cayenensis, Diodora chipolana, Diodora corbicula, Diodora densiclathrata, Diodora derbyi, Diodora diadala, Diodora fragilis, Diodora galeata, Diodora gibberula, Diodora granifera, Diodora griscomi, Diodora henekeni, Diodora immortalis, Diodora inaequalis, Diodora jaumei, Diodora jukesii, Diodora lincolnensis, Diodora lineata, Diodora listeri, Diodora meta, Diodora minuta, Diodora murina, Diodora mus, Diodora occidua, Diodora octogona, Diodora pamlicoensis, Diodora parviforata, Diodora patagonica, Diodora penderensis, Diodora pumpellyi, Diodora quadriradiata, Diodora redimicula, Diodora ruppelli, Diodora singaporensis, Diodora subcostaria, Diodora tenebrosa, Diodora ticaonica, Diodora viridula, Diodora vredenburgi, Diodora (Elegidion) marshallensis, Elegidion audax, Fissuridea subelliptica, Fissuridea marylandica, Fissuridea unica, Fissuridea nassula, Fissuridea alticosta
Ecology: facultatively mobile epifaunal grazer-carnivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Ireland (1 collection), Italy (2), Morocco (1)
• Pliocene of Spain (5), the United Kingdom (1)
• Miocene of Austria (2), Hungary (1), Italy (1), Moldova (4), Poland (3)
• Eocene of France (1)
Total: 22 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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