Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda > Subclass Orthogastropoda > Subclass Heterobranchia > Infraclass Euthyneura > Subterclass Tectipleura > Order Cephalaspidea > Superfamily Cylichnoidea > Family Diaphanidae > Subfamily Diaphaninae > Genus Diaphana

Diaphana minuta T. Brown, 1827

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Diaphana*	T. Brown, 1827	accepted genus name
*Amphisphyra*	Lovén, 1846	synonym

Species group names

*Amphisphyra expansa*	Jeffreys, 1865	synonym
*Bulla debilis*	A. Gould, 1840	synonym
*Bulla hyalina*	W. Turton, 1834	synonym; nom. inval.
*Bulla subangulata*	Møller, 1842	synonym
*Diaphana brunnea*	Dall, 1919	synonym
*Diaphana candida*	T. Brown, 1827	synonym
*Diaphana expansa*	(Jeffreys, 1865)	synonym
*Diaphana hyalina*	(W. Turton, 1834)	synonym
*Diaphana hyalina var. spirata*	Odhner, 1907	synonym
*Diaphana pellucida*	T. Brown, 1827	synonym
*Diaphana watanabei*	T. Habe, 1976	synonym

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Dutch: gewone glashoren; glashoren sources: de Bruyne, R.H.; Bank, R.A.; Adema, J.P.H.M.; Perk, F.A. (1994). Nederlandse naamlijst van de weekdieren (Mollusca) van Nederland en Belgie: feestuitgave ter gelegenheid van het zestig-jarig jubileum van de Nederlandse Malacologische Vereniging [Dutch namelist of the Mollusca from the Netherlands and Belgium: festive edition at the occasion of the 60-year jubilee of the Dutch Malacological Society]. Backhuys Publishers: Leiden, The Netherlands. ISBN 90-73348-33-1. 149 pp.

English: Arctic paperbubble; Arctic paper-bubble; brown paper-bubble; weak paper-bubble sources: North-West Atlantic Ocean species (NWARMS);Cole, T. C. H. (2017). Wörterbuch der Wirbellosen / Dictionary of Invertebrates. Latein-Deutsch-English. 2017. Springer Spektrum: Berlin. ISBN 978-3-662-52869-3. XII, 574 pp.

German: Arktische Papierblase; Enggenabelte Zwergfässchenschnecke

Literature

original description	Brown, T. (1827). Illustrations of the conchology of Great Britain and Ireland. Drawn from nature. W.H. Lizars and D. Lizars, Edinburgh and S. Highley, London. 144 pp., 52 pls.
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 Colobocephalus costellatus M. Sars, 1870. Zootaxa. 3774(6): 501-522.
additional source	Rosenberg, G. 1992. Encyclopedia of Seashells. Dorset: New York. 224 pp.
additional source	Valdés A. (2019). Northeast Pacific benthic shelled sea slugs. Zoosymposia. 13: 242-304.
additional source	Schiøtte T. (1998) A taxonomic revision of the genus Diaphana Brown, 1827, including a discussion of the phylogeny and zoogeography of the genus (Mollusca: Opisthobranchia). Steenstrupia 24(1): 77-140.

Genbank

Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Diaphana minuta T. Brown, 1827. Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:139557