Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Diodora punctifissa
Gastropodos, Gastropods
Length: 9.5 mm; width: 7 mm; height: 6 mm.
Shallow water (less than 200 m depth), the species is unique in retaining the apex in the adult.
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Mollusca
Class
Gastropoda
Order
Lepetellida
Superfamily
Fissurelloidea
Family
Fissurellidae
Genus
Diodora
Species
punctifissa
Taxon category: Accepted
USNM: 679561 (Paratype), LACM 1311 (Holotype), 1312 (Paratypes) + several other specimens
Origin: Native
- Emerson, W.K. (1995) A zoogeographic summary of the marine mollusks of the Revillagigedo Islands (Tropical eastern Pacific Ocean). The Festivus 27(1): 3-18.
- Finet, Y. (1991) The Marine Mollusks of the Galapagos Islands. In: Galápagos Marine Invertebrate. Taxonomy, Biogeography, and Evolution in Darwin's Islands. Plenum Press. New York and London, p. 253-280.
- Finet, Y. (2001) The marine mollusks of the Galapagos Islands: a documented faunal list. Editions du Muséum d' Histoire naturelle, Genève, 237 pp.
- Horton, T. Horton, T., Kroh, A., Ahyong, S., Bailly, N., Boyko, C. B., Brandão, S. N., Gofas, S., Hooper, J. N. A., Hernandez, F., Holovachov, O., Mees, J., Molodtsova, T. N., Paulay, G., Decock, W., Dekeyzer, S., Poffyn, G., Vandepitte, L., Vanhoorne, B., Adlard, R., ... Zhao, Z. (2021) World Register of Marine Species. Available from https://www.marinespecies.org at VLIZ.
- Keen, A.M. (1958) Sea Shells of Tropical West America. Stanford University Press, Palo Alto, 1st edition, 624 pp.
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"Galapagos Species Database, Diodora punctifissa", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=10098. Accessed 30 October 2026.