Diala suturalis is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Dialidae.[1]
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| Museum specimen in test tube | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Family: | Dialidae |
| Genus: | Diala |
| Species: | D. suturalis
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| Binomial name | |
| Diala suturalis (A. Adams, 1863)
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Description
editThe shell grows to a length of 13 mm
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Distribution
editThis species is distributed in the Western Indian Ocean and along Southern Australia and Tasmania.
References
edit- ^ a b Diala suturalis (A. Adams, 1863). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 15 February 2011.
- Richmond, M. (Ed.) (1997). A guide to the seashores of Eastern Africa and the Western Indian Ocean islands. Sida/Department for Research Cooperation, SAREC: Stockholm, Sweden. ISBN 91-630-4594-X. 448 pp
- C Hedley, Studies on Australian Mollusca. Part XI; Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales, 38: 258–339, 1913