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Chiton Linnaeus 1758

Description

Chiton Linnaeus, 1758

Type species: Chiton tuberculatus Linnaeus, 1758, subsequent designated by Dall (1879). Distribution: Worldwide except for the cold-temperate regions, but present in all of South America, Cretaceous – Recent.

Other

Published as part of Schwabe, Enrico, Sirenko, Boris I. & Seeto, Johnson, 2008, A checklist of Polyplacophora (Mollusca) from the Fiji islands, pp. 1-52 in Zootaxa 1777 on page 11, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.274284

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Chitonidae
Genus
Chiton
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Chitonida
Phylum
Mollusca
Scientific name authorship
Linnaeus
Taxon rank
genus
Taxonomic concept label
Chiton Linnaeus, 1758 sec. Schwabe, Sirenko & Seeto, 2008

References

  • Dall, W. H. (1879) Report on the limpets and chitons of the Alaskan and Arctic regions, with descriptions of genera and subspecies believed to be new. Proceedings of the United States National Museum, 1, 281 - 344, pls 1 - 5.