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Common Keyhole Limpet

Diodora graeca

Classification

Diodora graeca, the Greek keyhole limpet, is a sea snail or limpet, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Fissurellidae, the keyhole limpets. It was originally described by Carl Linnaeus in his landmark 1758 10th edition of Systema Naturae as Patella graeca (basionym). Distribution This keyhole limpet can be found beneath stones and clinging to rocks in the sublittoral zone (up to a depth of a few hundred meters) in the Mediterranean and West Africa to the North Sea (widespread on the coasts of Ireland and western Britain) and the subarctic North Atlantic.

Distribution

Mariottini P, Smriglio C, Oliverio M, Rossi S, Di Giulio A · CC BY
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Countries in the Picchu catalog
France · 328Spain · 137United Kingdom · 95Netherlands · 49Italy · 10Belgium · 4