Craspedochiton
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Craspedochiton is a genus of chitons in the family Acanthochitonidae, endemic to New Zealand, the Philippines, and Australia.
These chitons are somewhat similar to Notoplax, but with much more of the external surface of the valves showing, the insertion plates being quite narrow. The tail valve has the tegmentum large, broadly ovate, and with moderate sutural lamilae, but the insertion plate is exceedingly narrow. The median valves are much broader than they are deep, and the girdle is densely and minutely spiculose, with small sutural tufts.
[edit] Species
- Craspedochiton cornutus (Torr & Ashby, 1898)
- Craspedochiton elegans (Iredale)
- Craspedochiton hemphilli
- Craspedochiton hystricosus Kaas, 1991
- Craspedochiton isipingoensis (Sykes, 1901)
- Craspedochiton laqueatus (Sowerby, 1841)
- Craspedochiton pyramidalis (Is. Taki, 1938)
- Craspedochiton pyramidalis (Taki, 1938)
- Craspedochiton rubiginosus oliveri (Ashby, 1926)
- Craspedochiton rubiginosus rubiginosus (Hutton, 1872)
- Craspedochiton variabilis (H. Adams & Angas, 1864)
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[edit] References
- OBIS
- Craspedochiton (TSN 79051). Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
- Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1
