Hanleya

Hanleya
Temporal range: Oligocene–Miocene[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Polyplacophora
Order: Neoloricata
Family: Hanleyidae
Genus: Hanleya
Gray, 1857

Hanleya is a genus of polyplacophoran mollusc known from Oligocene and Miocene fossils;[1] it is represented today by a number of species including H. sinica Xu 1990 (China),[2][3] H. brachyplax (Brazil)[4][5] and H. hanleyi Bean in Thorpe, 1844 (Chile), which feeds on sponges.[6]

References

  1. 1 2 van Belle, R. A. (1981). Catalogue of Fossil Chitons. ISBN 90 6279 018 6.
  2. ↑ Fengshan, X. (1990). "New genus and species of Polyplacophora (Mollusca) from the East China Sea". Chinese Journal of Oceanology and Limnology. 8 (4): 374–377. Bibcode:1990ChJOL...8..374X. doi:10.1007/BF02849683.
  3. ↑ Kaas, P; Van Belle, R. A (1994). Monograph of Living Chitons (Mollusca: Polyplacophora). , Volume 5 Suborder Ischnochitonina: Ischnochitonidae: Ischnochitoninae (concluded), Callistoplacinae; Mopaliidae. Additions to Volumes. 1-4. ISBN 9789004100077.
  4. ↑ Jardim, Jaime; Simone, Luiz Ricardo Lopes (2010). "Corrigenda for the paper "Redescription of Hanleya brachyplax (Polyplacophora, Hanleyidae) from the south-southeastern Brazilian coast" (PDF). Strombus. 17 (1-2): 14–15.
  5. ↑ "Redescription of Hanleya brachyplax (Polyplacophora, Hanleyidae) from the south-southeastern Brazilian coast". Pap. Avulsos Zool. (São Paulo). 50 (40). 2010. doi:10.1590/S0031-10492010004000001. ISSN 0031-1049.
  6. ↑ Graham, A. (1955). "Molluscan diets". Journal of Molluscan Studies. Malacological Soc London. 31 (3–4): 144. ISSN 0260-1230.
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