Onithochiton
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Onithochiton is a genus of chitons in the family Chitonidae, endemic to Australia, New Zealand and South Africa.
Species in this genus are small to moderately large, elongate-ovate, round-backed, and with a wide fleshy girdle, densely covered with minute spicules. Valves vary from smooth to a radiating series of weak pustules. The head valve has eight slits, the median valves one on each side, and there are no slits in the tail valve, which has a mucro at the terminal edge.
[edit] Species
- Onithochiton ashbyi
- Onithochiton discrepans
- Onithochiton gotoi
- Onithochiton helenae
- Onithochiton hirasei
- Onithochiton literatus
- Onithochiton marmoratus Wissel, 1904
- Onithochiton neglectus neglectus Rochebrune, 1881
- Onithochiton neglectus opiniosus Iredale and Hull, 1932
- Onithochiton neglectus subantarcticus Suter, 1907
- Onithochiton quercinus
- Onithochiton rugulosus
- Onithochiton semisculptus
- Onithochiton societatis
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[edit] References
- GBIF
- Discover Life
- Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1
