Diloma

Diloma

A shell of Diloma subrostrata subrostrata
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Vetigastropoda
Superfamily:	Trochoidea
Family:	Trochidae
Subfamily:	Monodontinae
Genus:	Diloma Philippi, 1845^[1]
Type species
Turbo nigerrimus Gmelin, 1791
Species
See text
Synonyms^[2]
Anisodiloma Finlay, 1926 Cavodiloma Finlay, 1926 Fractarmilla Finlay, 1926 Melagraphia Gray, 1847 Neodiloma P. Fischer, 1885 Zediloma Finlay, 1926

Diloma is a genus of medium-sized sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Trochidae, the top snails. ^[2]

Distribution

This genus occurs in the Indo-Pacific, including New Zealand, Japan, and other areas.

Species within the genus Diloma include:^[3]^[4]

Diloma aethiops Gmelin, 1791
Diloma arida (Finlay, 1927)
Diloma bicanaliculata (Dunker, 1844)
- Diloma bicanaliculata lenior (Finlay, 1927)
Diloma constellata Souverbie, 1863
Diloma coracina (Philippi, 1851)
Diloma durvillaea Spencer, Marshall & Waters, 2009^[5]
Diloma nana Gould, 1861
Diloma nigerrima (Gmelin, 1791)
Diloma piperina (Philippi, 1849)
Diloma radula (Philippi, 1849)
Diloma samoaensis Schwabe & Barclay, 2003
Diloma suavis (Philippi, 1849 in 1849-50)
Diloma subrostrata (Gray in Yate, 1835)
- Diloma subrostrata novaezelandiae (Anton, 1839)
Diloma zelandica (Quoy & Gaimard, 1834)

^ Philippi R. A. (1845). Abb. u. Beschr. Conch. 1(8): 188.
^ ^a ^b Bouchet, P. (2010). Diloma Philippi, 1845. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=391149 on 2011-07-02
^ "Diloma". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. http://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=331141.
^ 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. doi:10.1071/IS08030. PDF.

Donald K.M., Kennedy M. & Spencer H.G. (2005) The phylogeny and taxonomy of austral monodontine topshells (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Trochidae), inferred from DNA sequences. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 37: 474-483
Williams S.T., Karube S. & Ozawa T. (2008) Molecular systematics of Vetigastropoda: Trochidae, Turbinidae and Trochoidea redefined. Zoologica Scripta 37: 483–506