Leptochiton Gray, 1847

Sirenko, Boris I. & Saito, Hiroshi, 2020, Two new species of the family Leptochitonidae (Mollusca: Polyplacophora) from the tropical and subtropical shallow waters of the West Pacific, The Bulletin of the Russian Far East Malacological Society 24 (1 / 2), pp. 19-36 : 21

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.24866/1560-8425/2020-24/19-36
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11242694
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scientific name	Leptochiton Gray, 1847
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Genus Leptochiton Gray, 1847 View in CoL

Ty p e s p e c i e s. Chiton cinereus (sensu) Montagu, 1803 (non Linnaeus, 1767) = Leptochiton asellus (Gmelin, 1791) fide Lovén [1846, p. 159], subsequent designation by Gray [1847, p. 168].

G e n u s d i s t r i b u t i o n. Worldwide. Lower Carboniferous – Recent [ Sirenko, 2013].

Sirenko B. I. 2013. Four new species and one new genus of Jurassic chitons (Mollusca: Polyplacophora: Lepidopleurida) from the Middle Russian Sea // Proceedings of the Zoological Institute RAS. V. 317, N 1. P. 30 - 44.

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Taxonomy

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Mollusca
Class	Polyplacophora
SubClass	Neoloricata
Order	Lepidopleurida
SubOrder	Lepidopleurina
Family	Leptochitonidae

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