Gastropoda - Lepetellida - Fissurellidae
Alternative combinations: Fissurella cayenensis, Fissuridea cayenensis
Synonyms: Diodora alternata Say 1822, Fissurella alternata Say 1822, Fissuridea alternata Say 1822
Belongs to Diodora according to D. Massemin et al. 2009
See also Hendy et al. 2008, Holmes 1859, Perrilliat 1972, Rosenberg 2005 and Weisbord 1962
Sister taxa: Diodora (Diodora), Diodora arnoldi, Diodora aspera, Diodora auroraensis, Diodora chipolana, Diodora corbicula, 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 quadriradiata, Diodora redimicula, Diodora ruppelli, Diodora singaporensis, Diodora subcostaria, Diodora tenebrosa, Diodora ticaonica, Diodora viridula, Diodora vredenburgi, Fissuridea unica, Fissuridea marylandica, Fissuridea nassula, Fissuridea alticosta, Fissuridea subelliptica, Elegidion audax, Diodora (Elegidion) marshallensis
Subtaxa: Diodora cayenensis henekeni
Ecology: facultatively mobile epifaunal grazer-carnivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of the Bahamas (3 collections), Bermuda (3), Cuba (3), the Dominican Republic (1), Jamaica (2), Panama (1), United States (19: Florida, Louisiana, South Carolina), Venezuela (1)
• Pliocene of Jamaica (5), Mexico (1), Trinidad and Tobago (1), Venezuela (9)
• Miocene of the Dominican Republic (1)
Total: 50 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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