Chaetoderma elegans, Scheltema, 1998

Miranda, Marcel S., Strong, Ellen E. & Passos, Flávio D., 2020, Type specimens of Caudofoveata (Mollusca, Aplacophora) in the molluscan collections of the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution and of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, Zootaxa 4895 (4), pp. 581-593 : 583

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4895.4.8
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4386390
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scientific name	Chaetoderma elegans
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elegans Scheltema, 1998 View in CoL ; Chaetoderma

Chaetoderma elegans Scheltema, 1998: 24–26 View in CoL ; fig. 2.10; tab. 2.1.

Type locality. South of Santa Cruz Island (33°45.85’N, 119°39.25’W), Southern California Bight, California, USA, 1808 m GoogleMaps .

Type material. Paratype USNM 860390 About USNM (1 spm + 1 slide with sclerites + 1 slide with radula) .

Remarks. Scheltema (1998) recorded that this species was described from only two specimens. The holotype is in the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, Los Angeles, USA (LACM 2748).