Lepidochitona Gray, 1821

Sirenko, Boris, 2023, Chitons of the genus Lepidochitona (Mollusca: Polyplacophora) in the Indian Ocean and ordering of species compositions of some genera of the subfamily Tonicellinae, Zootaxa 5228 (3), pp. 292-316 : 293

publication ID

https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5228.3.4

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:7FBAFF97-E057-42F6-B75C-7021677D4CF5

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7532719

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scientific name

Lepidochitona Gray, 1821
status

 

Genus Lepidochitona Gray, 1821 View in CoL View at ENA

Type species. Chiton marginatus Pennant, 1777 (= Chiton cinereus Linnaeus, 1767 ), by monotypy.

Genus distribution. Mediterranean Sea, northeastern Atlantic Ocean, Caribbean Sea and adjacent western Atlantic Ocean, Pacific coast near Central America, south Atlantic and Indian Oceans near South Africa and northwestern Indian Ocean. Eocene-Recent.

Gray, J. E. (1821) A natural arrangement of Mollusca according to their internal structure. London Medical Repository, 15, 221 - 239.

Linnaeus, C. (1767) Systema naturae. Vol. 1. Pt. 2. 12 th Edition. Salvii, Holmiae, 795 pp. [pp. 533 - 1327]

Pennant, T. (1777) British Zoology. Vol. 4. 4 th Edition. Crustacea, Mollusca, Testacea. s. n., London, viii + 154 pp., 193 pls.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Mollusca

Class

Polyplacophora

SubClass

Neoloricata

Order

Chitonida

SubOrder

Acanthochitonina

SuperFamily

Mopalioidea

Family

Tonicellidae

SubFamily

Tonicellinae