Late Pleistocene Red Sea Mollusca: 1. Polyplacophora
Author
Dell’Angelo, Bruno
Author
Landau, Bernard M.
Author
Sosso, Maurizio
Author
Taviani, Marco
text
Zootaxa
2020
2020-05-11
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3
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journal article
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10.11646/zootaxa.4772.3.1
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Genus
Acanthochitona
Gray 1821
Type
species.
Chiton fascicularis
Linnaeus, 1767
, by monotypy.
Distribution.
Almost worldwide except polar waters. The fossil record extends back to the Miocene of the Mediterranean Basin (
Dell’Angelo
et al
. 2016
,
2018a
, b), Paratethys (
Šulc 1934
;
Bałuk 1984
), West Pacific Islands (
Ladd 1966
), and
Australia
(
Cotton 1964
).