Notes on Fossil Chitons. 1. A new species of Lepidopleurus (Mollusca: Polyplacophora) from the Pleistocene of Salice (Sicily, Italy)

A new species of Polyplacophora (Mollusca) has been found in the Salice outcrop, in the Peloritain Mountains (Sicily, Italy), is attributed to the early Pleistocene. Lepidopleurus (Leptochiton) salicensis n.sp. is characterized by its uniformly sculptured tegmentum, with (well) raised, randomly dist...

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Published in:Zootaxa
Main Authors: DELL’ANGELO, BRUNO, BONFITTO, ANTONIO
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Mangolia Press 2005
Subjects:
Mollusca
Polyplacophora
Lepidopleuridae
Pleistocene
new species
Italy
North Atlantic
Online Access:https://www.mapress.com/j/zt/article/view/zootaxa.821.1.1
https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.821.1.1
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Summary:A new species of Polyplacophora (Mollusca) has been found in the Salice outcrop, in the Peloritain Mountains (Sicily, Italy), is attributed to the early Pleistocene. Lepidopleurus (Leptochiton) salicensis n.sp. is characterized by its uniformly sculptured tegmentum, with (well) raised, randomly distributed, neatly separated rounded/polygonal granules. The new species is compared with Lepidopleurus (Leptochiton) alveolus (M.Sars MS, Lovén, 1846), from the North Atlantic, and Lepidopleurus (Leptochiton) tavianii Dell’Angelo, Landau & Marquet, 2004, from the Pliocene of Estepona (Málaga, Spain).

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