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Lepidochitona Gray 1821

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Genus Lepidochitona Gray, 1821

Type species. Chiton marginatus Pennant, 1777 (= Chiton cinereus Linnaeus, 1767), by monotypy.

Genus distribution. Mediterranean Sea, northeastern Atlantic Ocean, Caribbean Sea and adjacent western Atlantic Ocean, Pacific coast near Central America, south Atlantic and Indian oceans near South Africa and northwestern Indian Ocean. Eocene-Recent.

Notes

Published as part of Sirenko, B. I., 2023, Lepidochitona bondarevi sp. nov. (Mollusca: Polyplacophora) from the Black Sea and its relatives, pp. 149-165 in Ruthenica, Russian Malacological Journal (Berlin, Germany) (Berlin, Germany) 33 (4) on page 150, DOI: 10.35885/ruthenica.2023.33(4).2, http://zenodo.org/record/13177076

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Biodiversity

Family
Tonicellidae
Genus
Lepidochitona
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Chitonida
Phylum
Mollusca
Scientific name authorship
Gray
Taxon rank
genus
Taxonomic concept label
Lepidochitona Gray, 1821 sec. Sirenko, 2023