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{{Taxobox
| image = Diaphorodoris olakhalafi 2.jpg
| image_caption='''Ola Khalaf's Nudibranch''' (''Diaphorodoris olakhalafi'' Khalaf, 2017) from Dibba Sea, Gulf of Oman, East Coast of the United Arab Emirates.
| regnum = [[Animal]]ia
| phylum = [[Mollusc]]a
| classis = [[Gastropod]]a
| unranked_superfamilia = clade [[Heterobranchia]]<br/>
clade [[Euthyneura]]<br/>
clade [[Nudipleura]]<br/>
clade [[Nudibranch]]ia<br/>
clade [[Euctenidiacea]]<br/>
clade [[Doridacea]]
| superfamilia = [[Onchidoridoidea]]
| familia = [[Calycidorididae]]
| genus = ''[[Diaphorodoris]]''
| species = '''''D. olakhalafi'''''
| binomial = ''Diaphorodoris olakhalafi''
| binomial_authority = Khalaf, 2017
}}
'''''Diaphorodoris olakhalafi''''' is a species of dorid [[nudibranch]] in the family [[Calycidorididae]]. It is found in the [[Gulf of Oman]] off the eastern coasts of the [[United Arab Emirates]] and the [[Musandam Governorate]] of [[Oman]].<ref>Khalaf-Sakerfalke von Jaffa, Norman; Khalaf, Ola (May 2017). [https://issuu.com/dr-normanalibassamkhalaf/docs/nudibranch_ola_khalaf "''Diaphorodoris olakhalafi'' Khalaf, 2017 : A New Dorid Nudibranch Sea Slug Species from the Sea of Khorfakkan, Gulf of Oman, Arab Sea, Indian Ocean"]. ''Gazelle: The Palestinian Biological Bulletin''. ISSN 0178 – 6288. Number 149, pp. 31-47. Dubai and Sharjah, United Arab Emirates.</ref> It was identified as a species new to science in 2017, and was named in honour of the discoverer's wife, Ola Khalaf.

==Size==
''Diaphorodoris olakhalafi'' is a small nudibranch reaching a length up to 10 mm.

==Diet==
Ola Khalaf's nudibranch is feeding on encrusting colonial [[bryozoans]].

==Habitat==
''Diaphorodoris olakhalafi'' lives in rocky and coral reefs to a depth of 20 meters.

==Distribution==
It lives in rocky and coral reefs off the eastern coast of the [[United Arab Emirates]] and [[Musandam]] in the [[Gulf of Oman]].

==References==
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==External links==
*[http://zoobank.org/NomenclaturalActs/9531C0AB-9E80-448F-9A55-6A9A009D7617 ''Diaphorodoris olakhalafi'' in ZooBank.]

*[https://www.biolib.cz/en/taxon/id1222805/ ''Diaphorodoris olakhalafi'' in BioLib.]

*[http://www.eol.org/collections/131000 ''Diaphorodoris olakhalafi'' in Encyclopedia of Life.]

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[[Category:Calycidorididae]]
[[Category:Molluscs described in 2017]]

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