Leptochiton Gray 1847
- Dataset
- Late Pleistocene Red Sea Mollusca: 1. Polyplacophora
- Rank
- GENUS
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Mollusca
- class
- Polyplacophora
- order
- Lepidopleurida
- family
- Leptochitonidae
- genus
- Leptochiton
distribution
Distribution. This genus occurs worldwide (Kaas & Van Belle 1985 a). Leptochiton is one of the most ancient genera, with a putative and possibly questionable record in the Late Triassic of Italy [L. davolii (Laghi, 2005)].
type_taxon
Type species. Chiton cinereus Montagu, 1803, non Linnaeus, 1767 (= Chiton asellus Gmelin, 1791), by subsequent designation (Gray 1847).
Name
- Homonyms
- Leptochiton Gray 1847