Thermochiton
Appearance
Thermochiton | |
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Shell of Thermochiton papuaensis (holotype at MNHN, Paris) | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Polyplacophora |
Order: | Chitonida |
Suborder: | Chitonina |
Family: | Ischnochitonidae |
Genus: | Thermochiton Saito & Okutani, 1990 |
Type species | |
Thermochiton undocostatus Saito & Okutani, 1990 |
Thermochiton is a genus of polyplacophoran molluscs in the family Ischnochitonidae.[1]
Species
[edit]- Thermochiton papuaensis Sirenko, 2020
- Thermochiton undocostatus Saito & Okutani, 1990
- Thermochiton xui H. Wang, J. L. Zhang & Sirenko, 2022
References
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- ^ MolluscaBase eds. (2022). MolluscaBase. Thermochiton Saito & Okutani, 1990. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=385552 on 2022-09-27
- Saito, O.; Okutani, T. (1990). Two New Chitons (Mollusca:Polyplacophora) from a Hydrothermal Vent Site of the Iheya Small Ridge, Okinawa Trough, East China Sea. VENUS (The Japanese Journals of Malacology). 49(3): 165-179