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Siphonaria compressa
Siphonaria compressa is a species of small, air-breathing sea snail. It is a pulmonate limpet, a gastropod in the Siphonariidae family.
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Description
The length of the shell is 4-4.5 mm. It is the smallest species of Siphonariidae.
Range & habitat
It is endemic to South Africa. A further site for this false limpet was discovered in 2004 in the Knysna River estuary (S34 03:E23 03) South Africa by Dr B. R. Allanson (the original describer of the species).
Wikipedia: “Distribution”
What it does
This small false limpet lives on the leaves of the marine plant, eelgrass.
== References ==
Wikipedia: “Ecology”
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 112703.