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Diaphana minuta T. Brown, 1827

Diaphana minuta
Diaphana minuta

139557  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:139557)

  1. Biota
  2. Animalia (Kingdom)
  3. Mollusca (Phylum)
  4. Gastropoda (Class)
  5. Heterobranchia (Subclass)
  6. Euthyneura (Infraclass)
  7. Tectipleura (Subterclass)
  8. Cephalaspidea (Order)
  9. Cylichnoidea (Superfamily)
  10. Diaphanidae (Family)
  11. Diaphaninae (Subfamily)
  12. Diaphana (Genus)
  13. Diaphana minuta (Species)
accepted
Species
Amphisphyra expansa Jeffreys, 1865 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Bulla debilis A. Gould, 1840 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Bulla hyalina W. Turton, 1834 · unaccepted (invalid; not Gray, 1826)
Bulla nana S. V. Wood, 1842 † · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Diaphana candida T. Brown, 1827 · unaccepted (synonym)
Diaphana expansa (Jeffreys, 1865) · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Diaphana watanabei T. Habe, 1976 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
marine
Brown, T. (1827). Illustrations of the conchology of Great Britain and Ireland. Drawn from nature. <em>W.H. Lizars and D. Lizars, Edinburgh and S. Highley, London.</em> 144 pp., 52 pls., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/127868
page(s): pl. 38 fig. 7-8 [details] 
Note Loch Torridon, Scotland  
From editor or global species database
Type locality Loch Torridon, Scotland [details]
Distribution North Pacific to Japan and British Columbia, possibly to Cedros Island, Baja California, Mexico; 0–327 m. 70.67°N to...  
Distribution North Pacific to Japan and British Columbia, possibly to Cedros Island, Baja California, Mexico; 0–327 m. 70.67°N to 42°N; 70.2°W to 45°W. Western Atlantic: Canada: Gulf of St. Lawrence, Quebec, Nova Scotia; USA: Maine, Massachusetts, Connecticut. Confusion with Diaphana californica makes the range of D. minuta in the northeast Pacific uncertain. [details]
MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Diaphana minuta T. Brown, 1827. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=139557 on 2025-01-06
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Bouchet, Philippe

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original description Brown, T. (1827). Illustrations of the conchology of Great Britain and Ireland. Drawn from nature. <em>W.H. Lizars and D. Lizars, Edinburgh and S. Highley, London.</em> 144 pp., 52 pls., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/127868
page(s): pl. 38 fig. 7-8 [details] 

original description (of Diaphana pellucida T. Brown, 1827) Brown, T. (1827). Illustrations of the conchology of Great Britain and Ireland. Drawn from nature. <em>W.H. Lizars and D. Lizars, Edinburgh and S. Highley, London.</em> 144 pp., 52 pls., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/127868
page(s): pl. 38 fig. 7-8 [details] 

original description (of Bulla hyalina W. Turton, 1834) Turton W. (1834). Description of some nondescript and rare British species of shells. <i>Magazine of Natural History 7</i>: 350-353, available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2351800
page(s): 353 [details] 

original description (of Bulla debilis A. Gould, 1840) Gould, A. A. (1840). Descriptions of thirteen new species of shells. <em>American Journal of Science and Arts.</em> (1) 38: 196-197., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/30966509
page(s): 196. [details] 

original description (of Diaphana candida T. Brown, 1827) Brown, T. (1827). Illustrations of the conchology of Great Britain and Ireland. Drawn from nature. <em>W.H. Lizars and D. Lizars, Edinburgh and S. Highley, London.</em> 144 pp., 52 pls., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/127868
page(s): pl. 38 fig. 13-14 [details] 

original description (of Bulla subangulata Møller, 1842) Möller, H. P. C. (1842). Index Molluscorum Groenlandiae. <em>Naturhistorisk Tidsskrift.</em> 4: 76-97 [Copenhagen]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2322910 [details] OpenAccess publication

original description (of Amphisphyra expansa Jeffreys, 1865) Jeffreys, J. G. (1862-1869). <i>British conchology</i>. Vol. 1: pp. cxiv + 341 [1862]. Vol. 2: pp. 479 [1864]. Vol. 3: pp. 394 [1865]. Vol. 4: pp. 487 [1867]. Vol. 5: pp. 259 [1869]. London, van Voorst. , available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/55187
page(s): 330-332 [details] 

original description (of Diaphana brunnea Dall, 1919) Dall, W. H. (1919). Descriptions of new species of Mollusca from the North Pacific Ocean in the collection of the United States National Museum. <em>Proceedings of the United States National Museum.</em> 56 (2295): 293-371., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/7766313 [details] 

original description (of Diaphana watanabei T. Habe, 1976) Habe, T. (1976). Eight new and little known cephalaspid Opisthobranchia from Japan. <em>Venus, Tokyo.</em> 35(4): 151-157, pl. 1., available online at https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/venusjjm/35/4/35_KJ00004342303/_pdf
page(s): 151, pl. 1, fig. 7 [details] 

original description (of Diaphana hyalina var. spirata Odhner, 1907) Odhner, N.H. (1907). Northern and Arctic invertebrates in the collection of the Swedish State Museum (Riksmuseum). III. Opisthobranchia and Pteropoda. <em>Kungliga Svenska Vetenskaps-Akademiens Handlingar.</em> 41: 1-118. [details] OpenAccess publication

original description (of Utriculus tomlinianus Marshall, 1912) Marshall, J. T. (1911-1912). Additions to British Conchology [Part 7]. <em>Journal of Conchology.</em> 13: 179-190 [April 1911]; 192-209 [July 1911]; 223-231 [October 1911]; 294-306 [April 1912], 324-338 [July 1912]., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/31601491
page(s): 334, pl. 5 fig. 4 [details] 

original description (of Bulla nana S. V. Wood, 1842 †) Wood, S.V. (1842). A catalog of shells from the Crag. <em>Annals and Magazine of Natural History.</em> (1) 9: 455-462; 527-544, pl. 5., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2312928
page(s): 461, pl. 5, fig. 1 [details] 

basis of record Ohnheiser, L. T.; Malaquias, M. A. E. (2014). The family Diaphanidae (Gastropoda: Heterobranchia: Cephalaspidea) in Europe, with a redescription of the enigmatic species <em>Colobocephalus</em> <em>costellatus</em> M. Sars, 1870. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 3774(6): 501-522., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3774.6.1 [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

additional source Valdés A. (2019). Northeast Pacific benthic shelled sea slugs. <em>Zoosymposia.</em> 13: 242-304., available online at http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zoosymposia.13.1.21
page(s): 261, fig. 9B [details] 

additional source Schiøtte T. (1998) A taxonomic revision of the genus <i>Diaphana</i> Brown, 1827, including a discussion of the phylogeny and zoogeography of the genus (Mollusca: Opisthobranchia). <i>Steenstrupia</i> 24(1): 77-140. [details] 

additional source Rosenberg, G. 1992. <i>Encyclopedia of Seashells</i>. Dorset: New York. 224 pp.
page(s): 116 [details] 
 
 Present  Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio   Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
   

From editor or global species database
Distribution North Pacific to Japan and British Columbia, possibly to Cedros Island, Baja California, Mexico; 0–327 m. 70.67°N to 42°N; 70.2°W to 45°W. Western Atlantic: Canada: Gulf of St. Lawrence, Quebec, Nova Scotia; USA: Maine, Massachusetts, Connecticut. Confusion with Diaphana californica makes the range of D. minuta in the northeast Pacific uncertain. [details]

Type locality Loch Torridon, Scotland [details]

Unreviewed
Dimensions maximum size of 3 to 5 mm in length [details]

Habitat bathyal and circalittoral of the Gulf and estuary [details]
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LanguageName 
Dutch glashorengewone glashoren  [details]
English weak paper-bubblebrown paper-bubbleArctic paper-bubbleArctic paperbubble  [details]
German Enggenabelte ZwergfässchenschneckeArktische Papierblase  [details]
Japanese アワツブガイ [from synonym]  [details]
To Barcode of Life (7 barcodes) 
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication) (from synonym Diaphana watanabei T. Habe, 1976)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (20 publications) (from synonym Diaphana expansa (Jeffreys, 1865))
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (25 publications) 
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (3 publications) (from synonym Diaphana candida T. Brown, 1827)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (3 publications) (from synonym Diaphana brunnea Dall, 1919)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (35 publications) (from synonym Diaphana hyalina (W. Turton, 1834))
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (6 publications) (from synonym Bulla subangulata Møller, 1842)
To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL) (from synonym Diaphana watanabei T. Habe, 1976)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Diaphana minuta) 
To GB Mollusca Types (Utriculus tomlinianus Marshall, 1912; Holotype; NMW.1953.183.00002) (from synonym Utriculus tomlinianus Marshall, 1912)
To GenBank (3 nucleotides; 2 proteins) 
To Malacopics (Diaphana minuta T. Brown, 1827 ) 
To Malacopics (Diaphana minuta T. Brown, 1827 Norway, Sør-Trøndelag, Hitra Island, by dredging, co... 
To PESI (from synonym Diaphana expansa (Jeffreys, 1865))
To PESI 
To PESI (from synonym Amphisphyra expansa Jeffreys, 1865)
To PESI (from synonym Diaphana candida T. Brown, 1827)
To PESI (from synonym Diaphana pellucida T. Brown, 1827)
To PESI (from synonym Bulla hyalina W. Turton, 1834)
To PESI (from synonym Bulla debilis A. Gould, 1840)
To PESI (from synonym Diaphana hyalina (W. Turton, 1834))
To PESI (from synonym Diaphana hyalina var. spirata Odhner, 1907)
To PESI (from synonym Diaphana brunnea Dall, 1919)
To PESI (from synonym Diaphana watanabei T. Habe, 1976)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection 
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection (from synonym Diaphana brunnea Dall, 1919)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection (from synonym Amphisphyra expansa Jeffreys, 1865)
To ITIS
From editor or global species database
Diaphana minuta
Diaphana minuta
To GB Mollusca Types (Utriculus tomlinianus Marshall, 1912; Holotype; NMW.1953.183.00002)
To GB Mollusca Types (Utriculus tomlinianus Marshall, 1912; Holotype; NMW.1953.183.00002)
Hosted externally, from synonym
Unreviewed
To Malacopics (Diaphana minuta T. Brown, 1827 )
To Malacopics (Diaphana minuta T. Brown, 1827 )
Hosted externally
To Malacopics (Diaphana minuta T. Brown, 1827 Norway, Sør-Trøndelag, Hitra Island, by dredging, co...
To Malacopics (Diaphana minuta T. Brown, 1827 Norway, Sør-Trøndelag, Hitra Island, by dredging, co...
Hosted externally