Chaetoderma majusculum, Scheltema, 1976

Miranda, Marcel S., Strong, Ellen E. & Passos, Flávio D., 2020, Type specimens of Caudofoveata (Mollusca, Aplacophora) in the molluscan collections of the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution and of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, Zootaxa 4895 (4), pp. 581-593 : 584

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4895.4.8
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:51F44FE5-BE35-4BD6-B69C-FACD9BB67AA4
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4386394
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scientific name	Chaetoderma majusculum
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majusculum Scheltema, 1976 View in CoL ; Chaetoderma

Chaetoderma majusculum Scheltema, 1976: 231–233 View in CoL ; figs. 3D–F, 4–5; tabs. 1, 2; pl. 2.

Type locality. Off Ivory Coast (5°12’N, 3°58’W), West Africa, 200–300 m. GoogleMaps

Type material. Holotype USNM 760632 View Materials ; paratype USNM 760633 View Materials (1 spm).

Remarks. This species was described based only on these two specimens. The radula and the sclerites were extracted from paratype USNM 760633 ( Scheltema, 1976: figs. 1, 2, pl. 1a–h), but neither slides, pin stubs or the remaining body parts of this specimen were located in the collection of the USNM.