Hanleya Gray 1857

• Main Author: Sirenko, Boris
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2014
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Mollusca; Polyplacophora; Lepidopleurida; Hanleyidae; Hanleya; Barents Sea; Greenland
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4631315; http://treatment.plazi.org/id/513E7520D308FFD6FE0D54B9B465FBA3

Genus Hanleya Gray, 1857 Type species Hanleya debilis Gray, 1857 (= Chiton hanleyi Bean in Thorpe, 1844), by monotypy. Stratigraphic range Upper Oligocene – Recent. Distribution Atlantic Ocean and adjacent seas, from southern Greenland and the western Barents Sea (74.27° N) to the Brazilian coast (25.44° S), including the Mediterranean Sea, and the Gulf of Mexico. Bathymetric range extends from the intertidal zone ( H. hanleyi ) to 1680 m ( H. nagelfar ). Diagnosis The following diagnosis for the genus Hanleya is based on data from Sirenko (1997), Jardim and Simone (2010b), and new data in this publication. Animal small to large. Insertion plate of head valve well developed, a primordium of insertion plates present in intermediate valves in all species. Insertion plates of tail valve well developed in Hanleya harasewychi sp. nov. and H. brachyplax , developed to a variable extent in H. hanleyi, H. nagelfar and H. mediterranea sp. nov., entirely absent in H. tropicalis . Tegmentum with large roundish or oval granules, each granule with one megalaesthete surrounded by 8–16 micraesthetes. Girdle covered with spicules or scales and longer, randomly dispersed needles or spines. Heads of major lateral teeth of radula with tridentate cusp, central denticle largest. Published as part of Sirenko, Boris, 2014, Composition of the genus Hanleya (Mollusca: Polyplacophora: Lepidopleurida), with the description of two new species, pp. 2913-2945 in Journal of Natural History 48 (45 - 48) on pages 2916-2917, DOI:10.1080/00222933.2014.963722, http://zenodo.org/record/4631535