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Callochiton : Gray 1847
- 1. Museo di Zoologia, Via Selmi 3, 40126 Bologna, Italy
- 2. Bavarian State Collection of Zoology, Münchhausenstrasse 21, 81247 München, Germany
- 3. Via Sernesi 7, 57123 Livorno, Italy;
- 4. Via Bengasi 4, 16153 Genova, Italy
- 5. Dipartimento di Scienze Biologiche, Geologiche e Ambientali (BiGeA), Via Selmi 3, 40126 Bologna, Italy;
Description
Genus Callochiton Gray, 1847
Callochiton: Gray 1847 a: 126.
Type species: Chiton laevis Montagu, 1803 (non Pennant, 1777)
[= Callochiton septemvalvis (Montagu, 1803), fide Kaas 1978], by subsequent designation (Gray 1847 b: 168).
For synonymy, see Kaas & Van Belle (1985 b).
Distribution: Mostly tropical and subtropical regions of the Indo-Pacific (including Japan; absent from the northeastern Pacific). In the Atlantic Ocean, restricted to the eastern and southern (sub-Antarctic) parts. Oligocene – Recent.
Notes
Published as part of Dell'Angelo, Bruno, Schwabe, Enrico, Gori, Sandro, Sosso, Maurizio & Bonfitto, Antonio, 2014, Chitons (Mollusca, Polyplacophora) from São Tomé and Príncipe Islands, pp. 171-200 in African Invertebrates 55 (2) on page 181, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7680891
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Callochitonidae
- Genus
- Callochiton
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Callochitonida
- Phylum
- Mollusca
- Scientific name authorship
- : Gray
- Taxon rank
- genus
- Taxonomic concept label
- Callochiton Gray, 1847 sec. Dell'Angelo, Schwabe, Gori, Sosso & Bonfitto, 2014
References
- PENNANT, T. 1777. British Zoology. Crustacea. Mollusca. Testacea. London: B. White.
- KAAS, P. 1978. Notes on Loricata, 10. On the European Callochiton species. Basteria 42: 73 - 75.