Lepidochitona Gray, 1821

Sirenko, Boris, 2023, Chitons of the genus Lepidochitona (Mollusca: Polyplacophora) in the Indian Ocean and ordering of species compositions of some genera of the subfamily Tonicellinae, Zootaxa 5228 (3), pp. 292-316 : 293

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5228.3.4
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7532719
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scientific name	Lepidochitona Gray, 1821
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Genus Lepidochitona Gray, 1821 View in CoL View at ENA

Type species. Chiton marginatus Pennant, 1777 (= Chiton cinereus Linnaeus, 1767 ), by monotypy.

Genus distribution. Mediterranean Sea, northeastern Atlantic Ocean, Caribbean Sea and adjacent western Atlantic Ocean, Pacific coast near Central America, south Atlantic and Indian Oceans near South Africa and northwestern Indian Ocean. Eocene-Recent.

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Taxonomy

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Mollusca
Class	Polyplacophora
SubClass	Neoloricata
Order	Chitonida
SubOrder	Acanthochitonina
SuperFamily	Mopalioidea
Family	Tonicellidae
SubFamily	Tonicellinae

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