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Diodora elizabethae

species of mollusc

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 26, 2026
Entity authorityQ5279122 ↗
Source-derived summary

Diodora elizabethae is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Fissurellidae, the keyhole limpets and slit limpets.

Description

The size of the shell reaches 45 mm.

Distribution

This marine species occurs off South Africa from False Bay to Southern KwaZuluNatal.

References

External links

World Register of Marine Species

"Diodora elizabethae". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 16 January 2019.

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“Diodora elizabethae” enters the record as species of mollusc. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Diodora, elizabethae and species can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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This entry incorporates text from “Diodora elizabethae” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.