Diodora murina Carpenter in Dall in Orcutt 1885 (keyhole limpet)

Gastropoda - Lepetellida - Fissurellidae

Alternative combination: Fissurella (Glyphis) murina

Belongs to Diodora according to U. S. Grant, IV and H. R. Gale 1931

See also Kanakoff and Emerson 1959

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 graeca, 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 mus, Diodora occidua, Diodora octogona, Diodora pamlicoensis, Diodora parviforata, Diodora patagonica, Diodora penderensis, Diodora pumpellyi, Diodora pupuyana, Diodora quadriradiata, Diodora redimicula, Diodora ruppelli, Diodora singaporensis, Diodora stillwaterensis, Diodora subcostaria, Diodora subelliptica, Diodora tenebrosa, Diodora ticaonica, Diodora unica, Diodora viridula, Diodora vredenburgi, Elegidion audax, Diodora (Elegidion) marshallensis, Fissuridea marylandica, Fissuridea alticosta, Fissuridea nassula

Ecology: facultatively mobile epifaunal grazer-carnivore

Distribution: found only at LACMIP Loc. 66-2, Newport Beach [Palos Verdes Sand] (Quaternary of California)

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