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Polyplacophora: Neoloricata: : Ischnochitonidae

Stenoplax limaciformis (Sowerby I, 1832)


Maximum Reported Size: 38  mm

Synonymy

Chiton limaciformis Sowerby I, 1832
Chiton purpurascens C. B. Adams, 1845

Details


Chiton limaciformis Sowerby I in Broderip & Sowerby, 1832a, p. 26, not figured
[Basis of the current name]
Type Locality: Inner Lobos Island in Peru; Guacomayo, Central America
Maximum Reported Size: 38 mm
References: Sowerby I (1832) M

Chiton purpurascens C. B. Adams, 1845, 
[Synonym]
References: Kaas & van Belle (1980) s


Partial List of References

Broderip, W. J. and G. B. Sowerby. 1832. [The collection of Shells formed by Mr. Cuming on the western coast of South America and in the South Pacific Ocean] [cont.] Proceedings of the Committee of Science and Correspondence of the Zoological Society of London 2 25-33.

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