Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Spiralia
Cladus: Lophotrochozoa
Phylum: Mollusca
Classis: Polyplacophora
Ordo: Lepidopleurina
Familia: Leptochitonidae
Genus: Lepidopleurus
Species: L. cajetanus – L. gallicus – L. pseudobenoisti
Name
Lepidopleurus Risso, 1826
References
Risso, A. 1826. Histoire naturelle des principales productions de l’Europe méridionale et particulièrement de celles des environs de Nice et des Alpes maritimes: tome cinquième. F.-G. Levrault, Paris. i- viii + 1-400 pp., 10 pls. BHL Reference page.
Colomba, M., Sigwart, J.D., Renda, W., Gregorini, A., Sosso, M. & Dell’Angelo, B. 2022. Molecular analysis of Lepidopleurus cajetanus (Poli, 1791) (Polyplacophora, Leptochitonidae) from the Mediterranean and near Atlantic. Zookeys 1099ː 29–40. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1099.75837 Open access Reference page.
Dell’Angelo, B., Landau, B.M., Van Dingenen, F. & Ceulemans, L. 2018. The upper Miocene chitons of northwest France (Mollusca: Polyplacophora). Zootaxa 4447(1): 1–62. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4447.1.1 Paywall Reference page.
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
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