(Lepidochitona cinerea)

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Leptochiton cinerea and detail of scale pattern on girdle. (Courtesy of @ Dansk Historisk Forening. Danmarks Fauna, Bengt J. Muus, 1959, fig.20 by Poul H. Winther & fig.19c by B. Muus, respectively) – Ljósm. Guðmundur Guðmundsson

Almennt

Lepidochitona cinerea (Linnaeus, 1767)

 

Synonyms:

Chiton cinereus L., 1767

Lepidochiton cinereus Muus 1959

Reference to best descriptions of the species: Kaas & Van Belle 1985b: 84-86, Fig. 39; Muus 1959: 43-45, Fig. 25

BIOICE stations: Not found in the BIOICE samples; two IINH museum samples. 

Other records: Southern part of Eyjafjördur (Óskarsson 1971)

Bathymetrical range within the area: No information, but usually under rocks just below the littoral zone

Substrate: stones, hard bottom

World distribution: Found along all European coasts from Tromsø in Northern Norway south to Portugal and into the Mediterranean Sea, north and northwest coast of Morocco.

World bathymetrical range: 0 - 275 m, most commonly intertidal and sublittoral. 

Cite this page as: Jon-Arne Sneli and Gudmundsson, G. (2018). Polyplacophora (Nökkvar).http://ni.is/biota/animalia/mollusca/polyplacophora/lepidochitona-cinerea

References at: http://ni.is/biota/animalia/mollusca/polyplacophora

 

Útbreiðslukort

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Útbreiðsla Lepidochitona cinerea (Bioice samples, red dots; miscellaneous IINH museum specimens, blue dots)

Höfundur

Guðmundur Guðmundsson 2018

Biota