Lepidopleurus

Lepidopleurus
Temporal range: Paleocene–Miocene[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Polyplacophora
Order: Neoloricata
Family: Leptochitonidae
Subfamily: Leptochitoninae
Genus: Lepidopleurus
Risso, 1826
Species

See text.

Lepidopleurus is an extant[2] genus of chitons in the family Leptochitonidae.

Species

References

  1. van Belle, R. A. (1981). Catalogue of Fossil Chitons. ISBN 90 6279 018 6.
  2. 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.


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