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Leptochiton Gray 1847

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Genus Leptochiton Gray, 1847

Type species. Chiton cinereus sensu Montagu, 1803 (non Linnaeus, 1767) = Leptochiton asellus (Gmelin, 1791) fide Lovén (1846), by subsequent designation (Gray 1847).

Genus distribution. Worldwide, Recent, intertidal– 6,920 m.

Remarks. A molecular analysis performed by Sigwart et al. (2011) showed that the genus Leptochiton is not monophyletic. Morphological studies of the genus Leptochiton revealed some groups of species that possess a set of similar features, which include the shell, girdle, radula, and gills (Sirenko & Sellanes 2016). Over the past fifty years, several genera containing species previously included in the groups of the genus Leptochiton have been restored and described (Sirenko 1973a, b, 1988, 1992, 2020; Saito 1996; Sirenko et al. 2022). Most of these groups inhabit a more or less restricted area, but several groups, mainly of deep-water leptochitons, are widely distributed in the world oceans. Probably the species of each of these groups originated from different ancestors of the family Leptochitonidae resulting in the polyphyletic character of the genus Leptochiton.

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Published as part of Sirenko, Boris, 2024, The chitons of the family Leptochitonidae (Mollusca: Polyplacophora) from the Emperor Seamounts, Pacific Ocean, pp. 522-532 in Zootaxa 5474 (5) on page 523, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5474.5.4, http://zenodo.org/record/12730823

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http://treatment.plazi.org/id/AB6287B3DE5CFF76FF060502FBEFF822

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Journal article: 10.11646/zootaxa.5474.5.4 (DOI)
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https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/299716/taxon/AB6287B3DE5CFF76FF060502FBEFF822.taxon (URL)

Biodiversity

Family
Leptochitonidae
Genus
Leptochiton
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Lepidopleurida
Phylum
Mollusca
Scientific name authorship
Gray
Taxon rank
genus
Taxonomic concept label
Leptochiton Gray, 1847 sec. Sirenko, 2024

References

  • Gray, J. E. (1847) A list of the genera of recent Mollusca, their synonymy and types. Proceedings of the Zoological Society London, 15, 129 - 206. https: // doi. org / 10.1111 / j. 1469 - 7998.1847. tb 00164. x
  • Montagu, G. (1803) Testacea Britannica or Natural History of British shells, marine, land and fresh water, including the most minute, systematically arranged and embellished with figures. Vols. 1 & 2. J. White, London, 606 pp. [Vol. 1: pp. 1 - 291 & Vol. 2: pp. 292 - 606] https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 33927
  • Linnaeus, C. (1767) Systema Naturae. Tom. I. Pars II. Laurentius Salvius, Stockholm, pp. 533 - 1327.
  • Gmelin, J. F. (1791) C. von Linnaeus. Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Vol. 1. Pt. 6. 13 th Edition. Impensis Direct, Laurentii Salvii, Holmiae, 6 pp. [pp. 3202 - 3207, Vermes Testacea, Genus 300, Chiton]
  • 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
  • Sigwart, J. D., Schwabe, E., Saito, H., Samadi, S. & Giribet, G. (2011) Evolution in the deep sea: combined analyses of the earliest diverging living chitons (Mollusca: Polyplacophora: Lepidopleurida). Invertebrate Systematics, 24, 560 - 572. https: // doi. org / 10.1071 / IS 10028
  • 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
  • Sirenko, B. I. (1973 a) Amphipacific distribution of chitons (Loricata) and their new species in the north-west section of the Pacific Ocean. Zoological Journal, 52 (5), 659 - 667. [in Russian]
  • Sirenko, B. I. (1988) A new genus of deep sea chitons Ferreiraella gen. n. (Lepidopleurida, Leptochitonidae) with a description of a new ultraabyssal species. Zoologicheskij zhurnal, 67 (12), 1776 - 1786. [in Russian, English summary]
  • Sirenko, B. I. (1992) Nierstraszellidae fam. nov. - a new family of chitons (Polyplacophora, Lepidopleurida) from the bathyal Western Pacific. Ruthenica, 2, 81 - 90.
  • Sirenko, B. I. (2020) Leptochiton tahitiensis sp. nov. (Mollusca: Polyplacophora: Leptochitonidae) from the Society Islands, Polynesia. Zoosystematica Rossica, 29 (1), 87 - 92. https: // doi. org / 10.31610 / zsr / 2020.29.1.87
  • Saito, H. (1996) Seven New Species of the Genus Parachiton (Polyplacophora: Leptochitonidae) from the Northwest Pacific. Venus, 55 (3), 161 - 187.
  • Sirenko, B. I., Saito, H. & Schwabe, E. (2022) A redescription of Leptochiton belknapi Dall, 1878 (Mollusca: Polyplacophora: Leptochitonidae), the type species of the new genus Belknapchiton. Zootaxa, 5205 (2), 101 - 124. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 5205.2.1