Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Diodora inaequalis
lapa de agujero tallado, Sculptured keyhole limpet
Length: 27 mm; width: 16 mm; height: 8 mm.
Shallow water (less than 200 m depth), subtidal.
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Mollusca
Class
Gastropoda
Order
Lepetellida
Superfamily
Fissurelloidea
Family
Fissurellidae
Genus
Diodora
Species
inaequalis
Taxon category: Accepted
?Syn: Fissurella mus Reeve, 1850, AMNH: 86617, 110387 ?, 110430, ANSP: 81771, 152505, 153173, USNM: 59267, 102367, 153173, LACM: several lots, BMNH: 1966390 (3 Paratypes), acc. no. 2271: 1 lot (Charles Lyell coll., C. Darwin material), CDRS: 308, 1245, CLHI: 97-233 (CDRS), FNRS-Belgian expedition to the Galapagos, 1984, MHNG: expedition to the Galapagos,1993
Origin: Native
Map of specimen collection localities or observation records for this species in our collections database.
Distribution: Gulf of California to Ecuador including Galapagos Islands
- Finet, Y. (1991) The Marine Mollusks of the Galapagos Islands. In: Galápagos Marine Invertebrate. Taxonomy, Biogeography, and Evolution in Darwin's Islands. Plenum Press. New York and London, p. 253-280.
- Finet, Y. (2001) The marine mollusks of the Galapagos Islands: a documented faunal list. Editions du Muséum d' Histoire naturelle, Genève, 237 pp.
- Hickman, C.P. Jr. Finet, Y. (1999) A Field Guide to the Marine Molluscs of Galápagos. Sugar Spring Press, Lexington, Virginia, 150 pp.
- Horton, T. Horton, T., Kroh, A., Ahyong, S., Bailly, N., Boyko, C. B., Brandão, S. N., Gofas, S., Hooper, J. N. A., Hernandez, F., Holovachov, O., Mees, J., Molodtsova, T. N., Paulay, G., Decock, W., Dekeyzer, S., Poffyn, G., Vandepitte, L., Vanhoorne, B., Adlard, R., ... Zhao, Z. (2021) World Register of Marine Species. Available from https://www.marinespecies.org at VLIZ.
- Keen, A.M. (1958) Sea Shells of Tropical West America. Stanford University Press, Palo Alto, 1st edition, 624 pp.
- Vinueza, L. Flores, M. (2002) Comunidades intermareales. In: Danulat, E. & Edgar, G.J. (eds.) (2002): Reserva Marina de Galápagos. Línea Base de la Biodiversidad. Fundación Charles Darwin/Servicio Parque Nacional Galápagos, Santa Cruz, Galápagos, Ecuador, p. 98-118.
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"Galapagos Species Database, Diodora inaequalis", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=8640. Accessed 30 October 2026.