Diodora ruppellii

Herbert, David G., 2015, An annotated catalogue and bibliography of the taxonomy, synonymy and distribution of the Recent Vetigastropoda of South Africa (Mollusca), Zootaxa 4049 (1), pp. 1-98 : 19

Diodora ruppellii (G.B. Sowerby (I), 1835)—new record

Fissurella ruppellii G.B. Sowerby (I), 1835a : 128. G.B. Sowerby (I), 1835b: 6, no. 56, figs 65, 75. Type loc.: ‘ ad Insulam Nevis, Capt. Powers: in Sinu Arabico Rüppell’; Christiaens (1987: 25) discussed these localities and the figures provided by G.B. Sowerby (I) in Conchological Illustrations. He rejected the Nevis Island locality (Leeward Islands) and fig. 65, selecting fig. 75 (Red Sea) as the hypotype. Four possible syntypes in NHM (NHMUK 197579; Christiaens 1987).

Glyphis ruppellii —Pilsbry, 1891 in 1890–1891: 217 (in part, includes several non-synonymous taxa), pl. 39, fig. 8.

Fissurella (Glyphis) ruppelli [sic]— Melvill & Standen, 1898: 79. Lamy, 1909: 332.

Glyphis rüppelli [sic]— Odhner, 1919: 14.

Diodora ruppelli [sic]— Viader, 1937: 57.

Fissurella dysoni (non Reeve, 1850)— Braga, 1952: 93: pl. 6, fig. 9.

Diodora ruppellii —Paes da Franca, 1960b: 53, pl. 1, fig. 2. Moura, 1968: 26, pl. 4, fig. 1. Moura, 1970: 63, pl. 2, fig. 1. Barnard, 1963a: 293. Kay, 1979: 42, fig. 11C, D. Christiaens, 1987: 23 (detailed chresonymy), figs 8, 9, 44, 56–58. Jarrett, 2000: 3, fig. 5. Scaperrotta et al., 2013: 30.

? Diodora lima — Macnae & Kalk, 1969: 127.

Distribution. Indo-West Pacific to northern Zululand; shallow, near-shore reefs (no local data for living specimens). Melvill & Standen (1898) erroneously recorded this species from the ‘Cape of Good Hope’.