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Stenosemus

Description

Stenosemus sp.

Sirenko (1994) mentioned this species from the Commander Islands, West Bering Island [54°59’N, 166°04’E] from 2240 m.

Polyplacophora of uncertain taxonomic position

­ Paul (1976) mentioned the occurrence of an unidentifiable polyplacophoran in the northeastern Pacific (14°17.5'N, 126°15.4'W), at about 4500 m.

­ Menzies (1963) reported 5 chiton specimens from the southeastern Pacific, Peru­Chile Trench, 2000– 6000 m, and a single specimen from the same area from 3147–3255 m.

. Polyplacophora hadal and abyssal of distribution Generic. 4 FIGURE

Other

Published as part of Schwabe, Enrico, 2008, A summary of reports of abyssal and hadal Monoplacophora and Polyplacophora (Mollusca) *, pp. 205-222 in Zootaxa 1866 on pages 216-217, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.183815

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Biodiversity

Family
Ischnochitonidae
Genus
Stenosemus
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Chitonida
Phylum
Mollusca
Taxon rank
genus

References

  • Sirenko, B. I. (1994) Chitons (Polyplacophora) of the continental slope of the Kurile Islands with a brief review of deep water species of the Russian Seas. pp. 159 - 174, pl. 4. In: Sirenko, B. I. & Vassilenko, S. V. (eds) The Fauna of the Continental Slope of the Kurile Islands based on collections of 33 voyage R / V " Odyssey ". Russian Academy of Sciences Zoological Institute, Explorations of the Fauna of the seas, Moscow, Zoological Institute RAN. 46 (54).
  • Paul, A. Z. (1976) Deep-sea bottom photographs show that benthic organisms remove sediment cover from manganese nodules. Nature, 263 (5572), 50 - 51.
  • Menzies, R. J. (1963) General results of Biological Investigations on the deep-sea fauna made on the U. S. N. S. Elatnin (U. S. A. R. P.) during cruise 3 between Panama and Valparaiso, Chile in 1962. Internationale Revue der gesamten Hydrobiologie, 48 (2), 185 - 200.