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Onithochiton Gray 1847

Description

Genus Onithochiton Gray, 1847

Type species. Chiton undulatus Quoy & Gaimard, 1835, non Wood, 1828 (= Onithochiton neglectus de Rochebrune, 1881) SD Gray 1847.

Genus distribution and range. The genus is known from South Africa, the Indian Ocean, Australia, New Zealand, Vietnam, China, Japan and the Central Pacific Ocean. Miocene–Recent.

Notes

Published as part of Sirenko, Boris I. & Zhang, Junlong, 2019, Chitons (Mollusca: Polyplacophora) of Hainan Island and vicinity, South China Sea, pp. 1-40 in Zootaxa 4564 (1) on page 18, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4564.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/2588445

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Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Gray
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Mollusca
Order
Chitonida
Family
Chitonidae
Genus
Onithochiton
Taxon rank
genus
Taxonomic concept label
Onithochiton Gray, 1847 sec. Sirenko & Zhang, 2019

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.
  • Quoy, J. R. C. & Gaimard, J. P. (1835) Voyage de decouvertes de l' " Astrolabe ". Execute par ordre du Roi, pendant les annees 1826 - 1827 - 1828 - 1829, sous le commandement de M. J. Dumont d'Urville. Zoologie 3, Mollusques, Genre Oscabrion, Paris, 369 - 411.
  • Wood, W. (1828) Supplement to the Index Testaceologicus; or a catalogue of shells, British and foreign. London, i-v, 1 - 34.
  • Rochebrune, A. T. de (1881) Diagnoses d'espece nouvelles de la famille des Chitonidae. Bulletin annuel de la Societe Philomatique de Paris, 7, 115 - 121.