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Choneplax Dall 1882
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Description
Genus Choneplax Dall, 1882
Type species. Chiton strigatus Sowerby, 1840 (= Chitonellus latus Guilding, 1829), by original designation.
Remarks. The genus Choneplax Dall, 1882 includes four Recent species (Sirenko 2003): C. lata (Guilding, 1829) from the Caribbean, C. hastata (Sowerby, 1840), habitat unknown (fide Sirenko 2003), C. indica from the W. Indian Ocean, and C. littlerorum Sirenko, 2003 from American Samoa. This is the first fossil record for the genus.
Distribution. Indian and Pacific (American Samoa) Oceans, and West Atlantic, Pleistocene to present-day.
Notes
Published as part of Dell'Angelo, Bruno, Landau, Bernard M., Sosso, Maurizio & Taviani, Marco, 2020, Late Pleistocene Red Sea Mollusca: 1. Polyplacophora, pp. 401-449 in Zootaxa 4772 (3) on page 435, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4772.3.1, http://zenodo.org/record/3819654
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Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Dall
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Mollusca
- Order
- Chitonida
- Family
- Acanthochitonidae
- Genus
- Choneplax
- Taxon rank
- genus
- Taxonomic concept label
- Choneplax Dall, 1882 sec. Dell'Angelo, Landau, Sosso & Taviani, 2020
References
- Dall, W. H. (1882) On the genera of chitons. Proceedings of the United States National Museum, 4, 279 - 291. https: // doi. org / 10.5479 / si. 00963801.4 - 228.279
- Guilding, L. (1829) Observations on the Chitonidae. The Zoological Journal, 5 (17), 25 - 35.
- Sirenko, B. I. (2003) First Pacific species of the genus Choneplax (Mollusca: Polyplacophora). Ruthenica, 13, 33 - 39.