Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda > Subclass Orthogastropoda > Subclass Heterobranchia > Infraclass Euthyneura > Subterclass Acteonimorpha > Superfamily Rissoelloidea > Family Rissoellidae > Genus Rissoella

Rissoella diaphana (Alder, 1848)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Original genus

Rissoa Desmarest, 1814

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

RissoellaJ. E. Gray, 1847accepted genus name
Jeffreysia Alder, 1850 synonym

Species group names

Rissoa albella Alder, 1844 synonym
Rissoella glaber (T. Brown, 1827) sensu Alder, 1844 synonym
Rissoella glabra (T. Brown, 1827), sensu Alder, 1844 synonym
Rissoella glabra conica F. Nordsieck, 1982 synonym
Setia translucida F. Nordsieck, 1972 synonym

Vernaculars (+) (-)

 Dutch: dropslak; gewone dropslak

Literature

additional source

Hayward, P.J. & J.S. Ryland (Eds.). (1990). The marine fauna of the British Isles and North-West Europe: 1. Introduction and protozoans to arthropods. Clarendon Press: Oxford, UK. 627 pp.

additional source

Ortea J. (2019). La belleza como recurso contra la tristeza: Descripción de una nueva especie de Rissoella J. E. Gray, 1847 (Gastropoda: Heterobranchia) de Lanzarote, islas canarias, como homenaje a Margarita Salas, una ejemplar mujer para la Ciencia. Avicennia. 25: 73-78.

additional source

Fretter V. (1948). The structure and life history of some minute prosobranchs of rock pools: Skeneopsis planorbis (Fabricius), Omalogyra atomus (Philippi), Rissoella diaphana (Alder) and Rissoella opalina (Jeffreys). Journal of the Biological Assiociation of the U.K. 27: 597-632

additional source

Villari, A. & Scuderi, D. (2022). Mainly Mediterranean Rissoellidae (Heterobranchia Acteonimorpha?) with the description of Rissoella camillae n. sp. Biodiversity Journal. 13(3): 717-728.

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Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Rissoella diaphana (Alder, 1848). 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:141147

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Occurrence

 Present  Absent  Doubtful  Native  Introduced  Naturalised  Invasive  Managed  No data

Environment


marine

Importance

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2004-12-21 by Serge Gofas

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