Leptochiton juvenis Leloup 1981
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Leptochiton juvenis (Leloup, 1981)
Lepidopleurus juvenis Leloup 1981: 321, text fig. 3; pl. 1, figs 4–7.
Leptochiton juvenis: Kaas 1982: 88; Kaas & Van Belle 1985: 124 –126, fig. 55, map 44; Sirenko 2001: 43 –45, figs 16–30, 164– 165; 2004: 114–115, table 1; Sigwart et al. 2011: table 3, fig. 2; Yearsley & Sigwart 2011: table 1.
Material examined. Holotype (MNHN 5879). 23 specimens in 6 lots from Vanuatu, 9 specimens in 3 lots from the Solomon Islands.
Distribution. Philippines (96–194 m: Leloup 1981) and Vanuatu (417–850 m: Sirenko, 2001; this study) and now also the Solomon Islands (505-650 m). The present material confirms and expands the known distribution. Found living and feeding on sunken terrestrial plant remains.
Remarks. This species is known from the juvenile holotype and a series of 10 adult specimens collected from the same small area, Verde Passage, Luzon, Philippines (Kaas 1982). Sirenko (2001) reported a single specimen from Vanuatu (16.54° S, 168.20° E, 459–488 m), which is very close to the additional localities reported here. The specimens reported here are the deepest records for the species. Several stations (Boa 1 sta. CP2465, CP2466, CP2435) extend the maximum depth to 770–900m; the previously reported maximum depth was 459–488 m (Sirenko 2001).
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- Journal article: 10.5281/zenodo.280094 (DOI)
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- https://www.gbif.org/species/119507816 (URL)
- https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/45430/taxon/038787C8CD03FFE5FF704BA8B205FE1F.taxon (URL)
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Leloup
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Mollusca
- Order
- Lepidopleurida
- Family
- Leptochitonidae
- Genus
- Leptochiton
- Species
- juvenis
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- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Leptochiton juvenis Leloup, 1981 sec. Sigwart & Sirenko, 2012
References
- Leloup, E. (1981) Resultats des campagnes Musorstom I: Philippines (18 - 28 Mars 1976): Mollusques: Polyplacophores. Memoires Orstom, 91, 317 - 323.
- Kaas, P. (1982) Leptochiton species (Polyplacophora: Leptochitonidae) of the Musorstom 1 (1976) and 2 (1980) Philippines expeditions. Basteria, 46, 87 - 92.
- Kaas, P. & Van Belle, R. A. (1985) Monograph of Living Chitons (Mollusca: Polyplacophora), Volume 1. Order Neoloricata, Lepidopleurina. Backhuys, Leiden, 240 pp.
- Sirenko, B. I. (2001) Deep-sea chitons (Mollusca, Polyplacophora) from sunken wood off New Caledonia and Vanuatu. Memoires du Museum national d'Histoire Naturelle, 185, 39 - 71.
- Yearsley, J. M. & Sigwart, J. D. (2011) Larval transport modeling of deep-sea invertebrates can aid the search for undiscovered populations. PLoS One, 6, e 23063.