Callochiton Gray 1847

• Main Authors: Dell'Angelo, Bruno, Landau, Bernard M., Sosso, Maurizio, Taviani, Marco
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2020
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Mollusca; Polyplacophora; Chitonida; Callochitonidae; Callochiton; Antarctic; Argentina; Montagu; New Zealand; Pacific; Antarc*
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/3844051; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3844051

Genus Callochiton Gray, 1847 Type species. Chiton laevis Montagu, 1803 (non Pennant, 1777) = Callochiton septemvalvis (Montagu, 1803), by subsequent designation (Gray 1847). Distribution. Mostly tropical and subtropical regions of the Indo-Pacific (including Japan, absent from the northeastern Pacific). In the Atlantic Ocean, it is restricted to the sub-Antarctic and the eastern part further north. The fossil record extends back to the lower Oligocene of New Zealand (Ashby 1929), the Miocene of Europe (Bałuk 1984; Dell’Angelo et al. 2016), Argentina (Urteaga et al. 2011) and Australia (Ashby 1939) and the Pleistocene of Japan (Itoigawa et al. 1976). Published as part of Dell'Angelo, Bruno, Landau, Bernard M., Sosso, Maurizio & Taviani, Marco, 2020, Late Pleistocene Red Sea Mollusca: 1. Polyplacophora, pp. 401-449 in Zootaxa 4772 (3) on page 409, DOI:10.11646/zootaxa.4772.3.1, http://zenodo.org/record/3819654