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  4. ›Vetigastropods
  5. ›Keyhole Limpets, Abalone, and Allies
  6. ›Fissurelloidea
  7. ›Keyhole Limpets and Slit Limpets
  8. ›Fissurellideinae
  9. ›Diodora
Rough Keyhole Limpet
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Rough Keyhole Limpet

Diodora aspera

Diodora aspera, also known as the rough keyhole limpet, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Fissurellidae, the keyhole limpets. Although similar in appearance to a common limpet, it has a hole near the apex of its shell, and is only distantly related. It often has a scaled polychaete worm Arctonoe vittata living inside its shell as a commensal. In the event that it is attacked by a starfish, it...

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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 64148.