Notoplax aupouria

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Notoplax aupouria
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Polyplacophora
Order: Chitonida
Suborder: Acanthochitonina
Superfamily: Cryptoplacoidea
Family: Acanthochitonidae
Genus: Notoplax
Species: N. aupouria
Binomial name
Notoplax aupouria
Powell, 1937

Notoplax aupouria is a very rare species of chiton in the family Acanthochitonidae.

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[edit] Distribution

This species is endemic to New Zealand's Three Kings Islands.

[edit] Habitat

This chiton is only known from a few median valves, taken at a depth of about 170 m.

[edit] Description

The median valves have the tegmentum relatively small and narrowly triangular, but the sutural laminae is very wide. The jugum is a smooth narrow subparallel strip, and the rest of the tegmentum has eleven rows of oval pustules on each side.

Coloration is pinkish-buff, with white laminae.

Height of a median valve is up to 3.6 mm, and width up to 3.5 mm.

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