Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda > Subclass Vetigastropoda > Order Lepetellida > Superfamily Fissurelloidea > Family Fissurellidae > Subfamily Fissurellideinae > Genus Diodora

Diodora graeca (Linnaeus, 1758)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Original genus

Patella Linnaeus, 1758

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Diodora*	J. E. Gray, 1821	accepted genus name
*Glyphis*	P. P. Carpenter, 1857	junior homonym

Species group names

*Cemoria montaguana*	Leach, 1852	synonym
*Fissurella corrugata*	O. G. Costa, 1839	synonym
*Fissurella dominicana*	O. G. Costa, 1839	synonym
*Fissurella graeca*	(Linnaeus, 1758)	synonym
*Fissurella graeca f. miranda*	De Gregorio, 1885	synonym
*Fissurella graeca var. conica*	Monterosato, 1884	synonym
*Fissurella graeca var. depressa*	Monterosato, 1884	synonym
*Fissurella graeca var. ima*	De Gregorio, 1885	synonym
*Fissurella graeca var. mucronata*	Monterosato, 1884	synonym
*Fissurella graeca var. supragibba*	De Gregorio, 1885	synonym
*Fissurella mamillata*	Risso, 1826	synonym
*Fissurella occitanica*	Récluz, 1843	synonym
*Fissurella recurvata*	O. G. Costa, 1839	synonym
*Fissurella reticulata*	(da Costa, 1778)	synonym
*Fissurella reticulata*	(Donovan, 1803)	synonym
*Patella apertura*	Montagu, 1803	synonym
*Patella reticulata*	Da Costa, 1778	synonym
*Patella reticulata*	Donovan, 1803	synonym

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Albanian: kupa e vrimuar europiane sources: Dhora, DH. 2008. Fjalor i emrave të kafshëve të Shqipërisë (Emri shkencor – Shqip – Anglisht) / Dictionary of animal names of Albania (Scientific names – Albanian – English). Camaj – Pipa. Shkodër, Albania. pp. 288.

Dutch: gewone sleutelgathoren; sleutelgathoren sources: Backeljau, T. (1986). Lijst van de recente mariene mollusken van België [List of the recent marine molluscs of Belgium]. Koninklijk Belgisch Instituut voor Natuurwetenschappen: Brussels, Belgium. 106 pp.;Hayward, P.; Nelson-Smith, A.; Shields, C. (1999). Gids van kust en strand: flora en fauna [Coast and beach guide: flora and fauna]. Tirion: Baarn, Netherlands. ISBN 90-5210-327-5. 352, ill. pp.

English: common keyhole limpet; Greek keyhole limpet sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

French: fissurelle sources: Muller, Y. (2004). Faune et flore du littoral du Nord, du Pas-de-Calais et de la Belgique: inventaire. [Coastal fauna and flora of the Nord, Pas-de-Calais and Belgium: inventory]. Commission Régionale de Biologie Région Nord Pas-de-Calais: France. 307 pp.

German: Europäische Schwellenschnecke; Griechische Schlüssellochschnecke

Literature

basis of record	Gofas, S.; Le Renard, J.; Bouchet, P. (2001). Mollusca. in: Costello, M.J. et al. (eds), European Register of Marine Species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Patrimoines Naturels. 50: 180-213.
additional source	Ilyina L.B. (1993). Определитель морских средне-миоценовых гастропод Юго-Западной Евразии [= Handbook for identification of the marine Middle Miocene gastropods of southwestern Eurasia]. Trudy Paleontologicheskogo Instituta RAS. 255: 1-151.
additional source	Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. [The system of nature through the three kingdoms of nature, according to classes, orders, genera, species, with characters, differences, synonyms, places.]. Impensis Direct. Laurentii Salvii. Holmiae [Stockholm]. 1(10) [iii], 824 p.

Genbank

External Links

Marine Life Information Network - UK

Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Diodora graeca (Linnaeus, 1758). Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:139951