Leptochiton opiparus
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Description
Leptochiton opiparus (Iredale & Hull, 1925)
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Leptochiton opiparus was first synonymized with L. alveolus (M. Sars MS, Lovén, 1846) by Kaas & Van Belle (1985) and later with L. belknapi by Kaas & Van Belle (1987). In my opinion some of the species that were synonymized with L. belknapi are valid. Typical L. belknapi inhabits the Pacific Ocean from off the Pacific side of Hokkaido (40°12’N), the Sea of Okhotsk and the Bering Sea and North and South America’s Pacific waters southwards to 42°40’S, at depth of 100 to 3724 m (Sirenko & Sellanes 2016). In the Western Pacific, further south from Hokkaido to New Zealand, more than 10 species which belong to the L. belknapi -group are living. Therefore I think L. opiparus is a valid species. It cannot be excluded that Leptochiton rissoi (Nierstrasz, 1905) reported by Schwabe & Sellanes (2010) to be present in SW Australian waters represents Leptochiton opiparus..
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Leptochitonidae
- Genus
- Leptochiton
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Lepidopleurida
- Phylum
- Mollusca
- Scientific name authorship
- Iredale & Hull
- Species
- opiparus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Leptochiton opiparus (Iredale, 1925) sec. Sirenko, 2020
References
- Loven, S. L. (1846) Index molluscorum litora Scandinaviae Occidentalia habitantium. Ofverssigt Af Kungel Svenska Vetenskaps- Akademiens Forhandlinger, 3, 134 - 160. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 59081
- Kaas, P. & Van Belle, R. A. (1985) Monograph of living chitons. 1. E. J. Brill / W. Backhuys, Leiden, 240 pp.
- Kaas, P. & Van Belle, R. A. (1987) Monograph of living chitons. 3. E. J. Brill / W. Backhuys, Leiden, 302 pp.
- Sirenko, B. I. & Sellanes, J. (2016) Update of the genus Leptochiton (Mollusca: Polyplacophora) in Chilean deep waters: three new reports and description of two new species. Zootaxa, 4173 (3), 259 - 279. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 4173.3.5
- Nierstrasz, H. F. (1905) Die Chitonen der Siboga-Expedition. Siboga Expeditie, 48, 1 - 112, pls. 1 - 8.
- Schwabe, E. & Sellanes, J. (2010) Revision of Chilean bathyal chitons Mollusca: Polyplacophora) associated with cold-seeps, including description of a new species of Leptochiton (Leptochitonidae). Organisms Diversity & Evolution, 10 (1), 31 - 55. https: // doi. org / 10.1007 / s 13127 - 009 - 0002 - 6