Leptochiton (chiton)
| Leptochiton Temporal range:
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| Leptochiton asellus | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Polyplacophora |
| Order: | Lepidopleurida |
| Suborder: | Lepidopleurina |
| Family: | Leptochitonidae |
| Subfamily: | Leptochitoninae |
| Genus: | Leptochiton Gray, 1847 |
| Type species | |
| Chiton asellus Gmelin, 1791 | |
| Synonyms | |
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Leptochiton is a genus of polyplacophoran molluscs.[2]
Some Leptochiton species became extinct during the Pliocene period,[1] but there are also extant species.
Distribution
[edit]Worldwide.[3]
Species
[edit]- Leptochiton antarcticus Sirenko, 2015[3]
- Leptochiton asellus (Gmelin, 1791) - type species[3]
- Leptochiton bergenhayni Saito, 2011
- Leptochiton beui Sirenko, 2020
- Leptochiton inquinatus (Reeve, 1847)[4]
- Leptochiton kerguelensis (Haddon, 1886)[3]
- Leptochiton laurae Schwabe & Sellanes, 2010[3]
- Leptochiton longibranchiae Sirenko, 2015
- Leptochiton longisetosus Sigwart & Sirenko, 2012
- Leptochiton longispinus Saito, 2001
- Leptochiton lukini Sirenko, 1990
- Leptochiton macleani Sirenko, 2015
- Leptochiton madagascaricus Sirenko, 2019
- Leptochiton marshalli Sirenko, 2020
- Leptochiton muelleri Sirenko & Schwabe, 2011
- Leptochiton mutschkeae Sirenko, 2015
- Leptochiton myeikensis Saito & Aung, 2021
- Leptochiton neocaledonicus Sirenko, 2016
- Leptochiton pseudogloriosus Strack, 1991
- Leptochiton pumilus Sirenko & Saito, 2020
- Leptochiton rarinota (Jeffreys, 1883)
- Leptochiton subantarcticus (Iredale & Hull, 1930)
- Leptochiton surugensis Saito, 1997
- Leptochiton sykesi (G. B. Sowerby III, 1903)
- Leptochiton tahitiensis Sirenko, 2020
- Leptochiton taiwanensis Sirenko, 2018
- Leptochiton tenuidontus Saito & Okutani, 1990
- Leptochiton tenuis Kaas, 1979
- and many more
References
[edit]- ^ a b van Belle, R. A. (1981). Catalogue of Fossil Chitons. ISBN 90 6279 018 6.
- ^ MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Leptochiton Gray, 1847. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=138117 on 2021-04-30
- ^ a b c d e Sirenko B.I. (2015). "Leptochiton antarcticus (Mollusca, Polyplacophora) – a new species from the Southern Ocean". Ruthenica 25(4): 139-145. PDF.
- ^ * Cook, Steve De C., New Zealand Coastal Marine Invertebrates Vol 1, Canterbury University Press, NZ 2010 ISBN 978-1877257-60-5
External links
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