Craspedochiton Shuttleworth, 1853

Dell’Angelo, Bruno, Landau, Bernard M., Sosso, Maurizio & Taviani, Marco, 2020, Late Pleistocene Red Sea Mollusca: 1. Polyplacophora, Zootaxa 4772 (3), pp. 401-449 : 433

Genus Craspedochiton Shuttleworth, 1853

Type species. Chiton laqueatus Sowerby, 1841 , by monotypy.

Distribution. Atlantic (African coast) and temperate and tropical Indo-Pacific.The fossil record extends back to the upper Eocene or lower Oligocene in Washington, U.S.A. ( Dell’Angelo et al. 2011a), and the Miocene to the Pleistocene of Europe ( Dell’Angelo et al. 2004, 2016; Studencka & Dulai 2010).