Diloma zelandica

Diloma zelandica
Diloma zelandica
Diloma zelandica
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Vetigastropoda
Superfamily: Trochoidea
Family: Trochidae
Subfamily: Monodontinae
Genus: Diloma
Species: D. zelandica
Binomial name
Diloma zelandica
(Quoy and Gaimard, 1834)
Synonyms
  • Trochus zelandicus Quoy and Gaimard, 1834 (basionym)
  • Trochus atrovirens Philippi, 1851
  • Monodonta melanoloma guttata Hutton, 1884
  • Monodonta morio Suter, 1913
  • Monodonta atrovirens Suter, 1913

Diloma zelandica is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Trochidae, the top snails or top shells. [1]

Distribution

This marine species is endemic to New Zealand.

External links

References

  1. ^ Bouchet, P. (2010). Diloma zelandica (Quoy & Gaimard, 1834). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=546852 on 2011-07-03
  • Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1
  • Spencer H.G., Marshall B.A. & Waters J.M. (2009) Systematics and phylogeny of a new cryptic species of Diloma Philippi (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Trochidae) from a novel habitat, the bull kelp holdfast communities of southern New Zealand. Invertebrate Systematics 23: 19–25.
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