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Leptochiton collusor
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Description
Leptochiton collusor (Iredale & Hull, 1925)
Leptochiton collusor is similar to many other Australian and New Zealand leptochitons with longitudinal rows of granules on the central area of intermediate valves and bidentate cusps of the major lateral teeth of the radula, but differs from them by having smooth, elongate, needle-like spicules at the dorsal girdle, and a mucro that is a little behind the center. L. collusor differs from the deep-water species L. laurae that has narrow dorsal girdle scales, by having radial rows of granules on the head valve, lateral areas of intermediate valves and postmucronal area of tail valve and according to Kaas & Van Belle (1985) a short, squarish central radular tooth.
Notes
Published as part of Sirenko, Boris, 2020, New Zealand and Australian species of the genus Leptochiton (Mollusca Polyplacophora), pp. 401-449 in Zootaxa 4851 (3) on page 439, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4851.3.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4407805
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Leptochitonidae
- Genus
- Leptochiton
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Lepidopleurida
- Phylum
- Mollusca
- Scientific name authorship
- Iredale & Hull
- Species
- collusor
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Leptochiton collusor (Iredale, 1925) sec. Sirenko, 2020
References
- Kaas, P. & Van Belle, R. A. (1985) Monograph of living chitons. 1. E. J. Brill / W. Backhuys, Leiden, 240 pp.