Leptochiton belknapi Dall 1878

• Main Author: Schwabe, Enrico
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2008
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Mollusca; Polyplacophora; Lepidopleurida; Leptochitonidae; Leptochiton; Leptochiton belknapi; Bering Sea; Aleutian Islands
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6234335; http://treatment.plazi.org/id/03B2023CFF97397EFF428ADEFEBCFC27

Leptochiton belknapi Dall, 1878 Leptochiton belknapi Dall 1878: 1. While the species was originally described from the Bering Sea of the Alaskan Aleutian Islands, from a depth of 1840 m “only”, there are subsequent deeper records of this species from the following localities: ­ specimen number unknown; [described as Leptochiton benthus , which is a junior synonym] from the North Pacific, 15° north of Hawaii (35°41'N, 157°42'E), 4206 m (Haddon 1886) ­ specimen number unknown; [described as Lepidopleurus mesogonus , which is a junior synonym] from Canada, British Columbia, off the Queen Charlotte Islands [53°06’N, 132°14’W], 2904 m (Dall 1902) ­ specimen number unknown; [described as Lepidopleurus halistreptus , which is a junior synonym] from Mexico, off Acapulco (14°46'N, 98°40'W), 3436 m (Dall 1902) [locality data from Dall 1908] ­ 3 specimens [described as Lepidopleurus giganteus , which is a junior synonym] from Indonesia, south of Sulawesi Tengarra, Banda Sea (06°24'S, 124°39'E), 2798 m (Nierstrasz 1905) ­ specimen number unknown; [described as Lepidopleurus opacus , which is a junior synonym] from the Gulf of Panama (07°05'30''N, 79°40'W), 2323 m (Dall 1908) ­ specimen number unknown; [described as Lepidopleurus opacus ] from between the Galapagos Islands and the Peruvian coast (04°33'S, 87°42.5'W), 3667 m (Dall 1908) ­ 1 specimen [as Lepidopleurus (Leptochiton) benthus (Haddon, 1886)] from the eastern Pacific (15°N, 125°W), 4000 m (Hanselman 1977) ­ Lepidopleurus benthus (Haddon, 1886) was generally mentioned as occurring at a depth below 4000 m (Sirenko 1977) ­ 4 specimens [as Leptochiton alveolus ] from the United States of America, Oregon, off Lincoln County (44°33.5'N, 125°14.6'W), 2000 m (Ferreira 1979) [this is “CASIZ RV Ancona ”, data from: http:// www.calacademy.org/research/izg/iz_coll_db/index.asp] ­ 3 specimens [as Leptochiton alveolus ] from the United States of America, California, 10 miles SE off Farallon Islands, SW by S1/4 S (37°48'N, [122°58’W]), 2341–2741 m (Ferreira 1979) [this is “CASIZ ...