page_title: List of marine gastropods of South Africa
section_title: Vetigastropoda
hierarchical_section_title: List of marine gastropods of South Africa / Gastropoda / Vetigastropoda
caption_attribution_description: English: Fissurella mutabilis, Sowerby, 1834; a keyhole limpet from the family Fissurellidae; Atlantic Cape Coast, South Africa
context_page_description: This list of marine gastropods of South Africa attempts to list all of the sea snails and sea slugs of South Africa, in other words the marine gastropod molluscs of that area. This list is a sub-list of the List of marine molluscs of South Africa.
  The gastropods, more commonly known as snails and slugs, belong to a large taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca, called Gastropoda. This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, from freshwater, and from the land. There are many thousands of species of sea snails and slugs, as well as freshwater snails, freshwater limpets, and land snails and slugs.
  The class Gastropoda contains a vast total of named species, second only to the insects in overall number. The fossil history of this class goes back to the Late Cambrian., 721 families of gastropods are known, of which 245 are extinct and appear only in the fossil record, while 476 are currently extant with or without a fossil record.
  Gastropoda are a major part of the phylum Mollusca, and are the most highly diversified class in the phylum, with 65,000 to 80,000 living snail and slug species.
context_section_description: Pleurotomariidae
  Bayerotrochus africanus (Tomlin, 1948) (Central KwaZulu-Natal to Mozambique)
  Haliotidae - Abalone
  Perlemoen or Abalone Haliotis midae Linnaeus, 1758 (Cape Columbine to KwaZulu-Natal South coast)
  Haliotis ovina Gmelin 1791 (Northern KwaZulu-Natal to Mozambique)
  Spiral-ridged siffie Haliotis parva Linnaeus, 1758 (Cape Point to Eastern Cape)
  Haliotis pustulata Reeve, 1846 (Northern KwaZulu-Natal to Mozambique)
  Haliotis queketti Smith, E.A., 1910 (Port Alfred to KwaZulu-Natal)
  Siffie or Venus ear Haliotis spadicea Donovan, E., 1808 (Cape Point to KwaZulu-Natal north coast)
  Beautiful ear-shell Haliotis speciosa Reeve, 1846 (Eastern Cape to central KwaZulu-Natal)
  Fissurellidae - Keyhole limpets
  Amblychilepas dubia (Reeve, 1849) (KwaZulu-Natal south coast to southern Mozambique)
  Saddle shaped keyhole limpet Amblychilepas scutella (Gmelin, 1791) (Namibia to northern KwaZulu-Natal) (syn. Dendrofissurella scutellum (Gmelin, 1791))
  Conical keyhole limpet Diodora parviforata (G.B. Sowerby III, 1889) (Orange river to Eastern Cape) (syn. Fissurella parviforata G.B. Sowerby III, 1889)
  Diodora australis (Sowerby, 1823) (Cape Agulhas to western Transkei)
  Diodora calyculata (Krauss, 1848) (Port Alfred to southern Mozambique)
  Diodora crucifera (Pilsbry, 1890) (Port Alfred to northern Indian Ocean)
  Diodora elevata (Dunker, 1846) (Saldanha Bay to western Transkei)
  Diodora elizabethae (Smith, 1901) (Still Bay to KwaZulu-Natal north coast)
  Diodora natalensis (Krauss, 1848) (Port Alfred to Mozambique) (syn. Fissurella natalensis Krauss, 1848)
  Diodora parviforata (Sowerby, 1889) (Saldanha Bay to Port Alfred, also south Atlantic islands)
  Diodora procurva Herbert, 1989 (Wild coast to KawZulu-Natal)
  Diodora spreta (E.A. Smith, 1901) (Still Bay to KwaZulu-Natal north coast)
  Cape keyhole limpet Fissurella mutabilis Sowerby, 1834 (Orange River to Eastern Cape)
  Emarginula sibogae (Schepman, 1908) (KwaZulu-Natal to Mozambique) but genus given in this reference as Emarginella. Corrected using http://www.marinespecies.org/ accessed 4 January 2010
  Macroschisma africana Tomlin, 1932 (Western Transkei to Mozambique)
  Mantled keyhole limpet Pupillaea aperta (G.B. Sowerby I, 1825) (Orange river to KwaZulu-Natal south coast) (syn. Fissurellidea aperta G.B. Sowerby, 1825)
  Scutus unguis (Linne, 1758) (East London to KwaZulu-Natal and tropical Indo-Pacific)
  Calliostomatidae
  Calliostoma africanum Bartsch, 1915 (Port Elizabeth to Transkei)
  Calliostoma circus Barnard, 1969 (Cape Point)
  Calliostoma iridescens Sowerby, 1903 (KwaZulu-Natal)
  Ornate topshell Calliostoma ornatum Locard, 1898 (Cape Point to Eastern Cape)
  Calliostoma scotti Kilburn, 1973 (Central and northern KwaZulu-Natal)
  Trochidae
  Black chained topshell Clanculus atricatenus Tomlin, 1921 (Transkei to northern KwaZulu Natal)
  Clanculus puniceus (Philippi, 1846) (KwaZulu-Natal south coast to tropical Indo-Pacific)
  Clanculus miniatus (Anton, 1839) (Cape Point to Transkei)
  Multicoloured topshell Gibbula multicolor (Krauss, 1848) (Cape Columbine to Eastern Cape)(syn. Trochus multicolor Krauss, 1848)
  Gibbula beckeri G.B. Sowerby III, 1901 (Namaqualand to Cape Point)
  Gibbula capensis (Gmelin, 1791) (Saldanha to Agulhas)(syn. Trochus capensis Gmelin, 1791)
  Gibbula cicer (Menke, 1844) (Namibia to Transkei) (syn. Trochus cicer Menke, 1844)
  Gibbula zonata (Woods, 1828) (Namibia to Agulhas)
  Toothed topshell Monodonta australis Lamarck, 1816
  Oxystele impervia (Menke, 1843) 
  Pink-lipped topshell Oxystele sinensis (Gmelin 1791)
  Oxystele tabularis (Krauss, 1848)
  Oxystele tigrina (Anton, 1839)
  Variegated topshell Oxystele variegata (Anton, 1839) 
  Black-spotted topshell Trochus nigropunctatus Reeve, 1861 
  Turbinidae - Turban shells
  Bolma andersoni (E.A. Smith, 1902) (Wild Coast and southern KwaZulu-Natal)
  Bolma bathyraphis (E.A. Smith, 1899) (KwaZulu-Natal and Mozambique)
  Bolma massieri (E.A. Smith, 1880) (KwaZulu-Natal)
  Bolma tayloriana Bozzetti, 1992 (Agulhas Bank, False Bay to Port Alfred)
  Turbo argyrostomus Linnaeus, 1758 (KwaZulu-Natal and Mozambique)
  Turbo argyrostomus Linnaeus, 1758 (KwaZulu-Natal and
caption: Fissurella mutabilis
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