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Leptochiton Gray 1847

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Genus Leptochiton Gray, 1847

Type species. Chiton cinereus Montagu, 1803, non Linnaeus, 1767 (= Chiton asellus Gmelin, 1791), by subsequent designation (Gray 1847).

Distribution. This genus occurs worldwide (Kaas & Van Belle 1985a). Leptochiton is one of the most ancient genera, with a putative and possibly questionable record in the Late Triassic of Italy [L. davolii (Laghi, 2005)].

Notes

Published as part of Dell'Angelo, Bruno, Landau, Bernard M., Sosso, Maurizio & Taviani, Marco, 2020, Late Pleistocene Red Sea Mollusca: 1. Polyplacophora, pp. 401-449 in Zootaxa 4772 (3) on page 404, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4772.3.1, http://zenodo.org/record/3819654

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http://treatment.plazi.org/id/03D21D39FFB1395AFF7BF99EFA80D8F8

Is part of
Journal article: 10.11646/zootaxa.4772.3.1 (DOI)
Journal article: http://zenodo.org/record/3819654 (URL)
Journal article: http://publication.plazi.org/id/FFEB6541FFB23959FFECFFB3FFF0DE03 (URL)
Journal article: http://zoobank.org/F546A223-59A0-4DA1-9102-AD7BC482105F (URL)
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https://sibils.text-analytics.ch/search/collections/plazi/03D21D39FFB1395AFF7BF99EFA80D8F8 (URL)
https://www.gbif.org/species/164035818 (URL)
https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/22261/taxon/03D21D39FFB1395AFF7BF99EFA80D8F8.taxon (URL)

Biodiversity

Family
Leptochitonidae
Genus
Leptochiton
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Lepidopleurida
Phylum
Mollusca
Scientific name authorship
Gray
Taxon rank
genus
Taxonomic concept label
Leptochiton Gray, 1847 sec. Dell'Angelo, Landau, Sosso & Taviani, 2020

References

  • Gray, J. E. (1847) A list of the genera of Recent Mollusca, their synonyms and types. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 15, 129 - 206. https: // doi. org / 10.1111 / j. 1469 - 7998.1847. tb 00164. x
  • Montagu, G. (1803) Testacea Britannica or Natural History of British Shells, Marine, Land and Freshwater, Including the Most Minute, Systematically Arranged and Embellished with Figures. Vol. 1 & 2. White, London, xxxvii + 606 pp. 16 pls. [pp. i-xxxvii + 1 - 291 & pp. 292 - 606, pls. 1 - 16] https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 33927
  • Linnaeus, C. (1767) " Vermes Testacea ". In: Systema Naturae. Editio duodecima, reformata. 1 (2). L. Salvii, Holmiae, pp. 533 - 1327.
  • Gmelin, J. F. (1791) Vermes testacea. In: Caroli a Linnei systema natura per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentis, synonymis, locis etc. Editio decima tertia, aucta, reformata, cura J. F. Gmelin. 1 (6). G. E. Beer, Lipsiae, pp. 3021 - 4120.
  • Kaas, P. & Van Belle, R. A. (1985 a) Monograph of Living Chitons (Mollusca: Polyplacophora). Vol. 1. Order Neoloricata: Lepidopleurina. E. J. Brill, W. Backuys, Leiden, 240 pp.
  • Laghi, G. F. (2005) Upper Triassic chitons from the Italian Dolomites. Lavori della Societa Veneziana di Scienze Naturali, 30, 79 - 84.