Leptochiton 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 : 404

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scientific name	Leptochiton Gray, 1847
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Genus Leptochiton Gray, 1847 View in CoL

Type species. Chiton cinereus Montagu, 1803 , non Linnaeus, 1767 (= Chiton asellus Gmelin, 1791 ), by subsequent designation ( Gray 1847).

Distribution. This genus occurs worldwide ( Kaas & Van Belle 1985a). Leptochiton is one of the most ancient genera, with a putative and possibly questionable record in the Late Triassic of Italy [ L. davolii ( Laghi, 2005) ].

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Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Mollusca
Class	Polyplacophora
SubClass	Loricata
Order	Lepidopleurida
Family	Leptochitonidae

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