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Diodora listeri (Lister's keyhole limpet) (San Salvador Island, Bahamas) 2 (16003435888)

Image of Diodora Gray 1821

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Diodora listeri (d’Orbigny, 1842) - interior view of a Lister’s keyhole limpet shell, 1.65 cm long. Anterior to the top and posterior to the bottom. Family Fissurellidae - limpets use their radulae to scrape algae from hard substrates. They typically occupy rock intertidal shorelines.

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