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Lepidochitona Gray 1821
Creators
- 1. Doctorado en Biosistemática y Manejo de Recursos Naturales y Agrícolas.
- 2. Departamento de Botánica y Zoología.
- 3. Departamento de Ecología Aplicada, Centro Universitario de Ciencias Biológicas y Agropecuarias, Universidad de Guadalajara, Camino Ing. Ramón Padilla Sánchez 2100, Zapopan, Jalisco, 45200, México.
- 4. Laboratorio de Invertebrados Bentónicos, Unidad Académica Mazatlán, Instituto de Ciencias del Mar y Limnología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México.
Description
Lepidochitona Gray, 1821
Type material and locality. Chiton marginatus Pennant, 1777 = Chiton cinereus Linnaeus, 1767: 1–532, accepted as Lepidochitona cinerea (Linnaeus, 1767). Norwegian sea.
Based on molecular studies, Eernisse (2007) reestablished the genus Cyanoplax and assigned the Lepidochitona species of the West Coast of the United States to a lineage independent from the Atlantic and Mediterranean species. Accordingly, Lepidochitona beanii (from the Gulf of California) and the Caribbean Lepidochitona species are retained as members of the genus Lepidochitona, and the genus Nutallina has been identified as the sister group to Cyanoplax.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Lepidochitonidae
- Genus
- Lepidochitona
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Chitonida
- Phylum
- Mollusca
- Scientific name authorship
- Gray
- Taxon rank
- genus
- Taxonomic concept label
- Lepidochitona Gray, 1821 sec. Reyes-Gómez, Vargas-Ponce, Galván-Villa, Salgado-Barragán, Esqueda-González & Ríos-Jara, 2023
References
- Gray, J. E. (1821) A natural arrangement of Mollusca according to their internal structure. London Medical Repository, 15, 221 - 239.
- Pennant, T. (1777) British Zoology. Vol. IV. Crustacea. Mollusca. Testacea. Printed for Benj. White, London, viii + 154 pp.
- Linnaeus, C. (1767) Systema naturae. Tom. 1. Pars 2. Ed. Duodecima Reformata. Vermes III Testacea, genus 300. Chiton. Impensis direct. Laurentii Salvii, Holmiae, pp. 533 - 1327.
- Eernisse, D. J. (2007) Chiton phylogeography and new species discovery along the Baja California Peninsula [Abstract]. Meeting Program for the 40 th Annual Meeting of the Western Society of Malacologists, La Paz, Baja California Sur, Mexico, 26 - 30 July 2007, 32 - 33.