Callochiton Gray, 1847

Dell’Angelo, Bruno, Landau, Bernard M., Sosso, Maurizio & Taviani, Marco, 2020, Late Pleistocene Red Sea Mollusca: 1. Polyplacophora, Zootaxa 4772 (3), pp. 401-449 : 409

Genus Callochiton Gray, 1847

Type species. Chiton laevis Montagu, 1803 (non Pennant, 1777) = Callochiton septemvalvis ( Montagu, 1803) , by subsequent designation ( Gray 1847).

Distribution. Mostly tropical and subtropical regions of the Indo-Pacific (including Japan, absent from the northeastern Pacific). In the Atlantic Ocean, it is restricted to the sub-Antarctic and the eastern part further north. The fossil record extends back to the lower Oligocene of New Zealand ( Ashby 1929), the Miocene of Europe ( Bałuk 1984; Dell’Angelo et al. 2016), Argentina ( Urteaga et al. 2011) and Australia (Ashby 1939) and the Pleistocene of Japan ( Itoigawa et al. 1976).