Lepidopleurus
| Lepidopleurus Temporal range: Paleocene–Miocene[1] | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Order: | Neoloricata |
| Family: | Leptochitonidae |
| Subfamily: | Leptochitoninae |
| Genus: | Lepidopleurus Risso, 1826 |
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Lepidopleurus is an extant[2] genus of chitons in the family Leptochitonidae.
Species
- Lepidopleurus cajetanus (Poli, 1791)
- Lepidopleurus fairchildi Iredale & Hull, 1929
- Lepidopleurus finlayi (Ashby, 1929)
- Lepidopleurus inquinatus (Reeve, 1847)
- Lepidopleurus otagoensis Iredale & Hull, 1929
- Lepidopleurus pergranatus
References
- ↑ van Belle, R. A. (1981). Catalogue of Fossil Chitons. ISBN 90 6279 018 6.
- ↑ Vendrasco, M. J.; Fernandez, C. Z.; Eernisse, D. J.; Runnegar, B. (2008). "Aesthete canal morphology in the Mopaliidae (Polyplacophora)*". American Malacological Bulletin 25: 51. doi:10.4003/0740-2783-25.1.51.
- "Lepidopleurus". Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
- Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1