Description
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Small size (up to 8.5 × 5 mm), dorsal elevation ratio = 0.39 (Kaas and Van Belle 1985b). Tegmentum sculptured with diamond-shaped granules. Girdle narrow, densely covered in small calcareous pustules and scattered spines.
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- Sérgio P. Ávila, Julia Sigwart
- bibliographic citation
- Ávila S, Sigwart J (2013) New records for the shallow-water chiton fauna (Mollusca, Polyplacophora) of the Azores (NE Atlantic) ZooKeys 312: 23–38
- author
- Sérgio P. Ávila
- author
- Julia Sigwart
Distribution
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The Mediterranean Sea (Dell’Angelo and Tringali 2000), Morocco (Dell’Angelo and Smriglio 1999), Madeira, Canary Islands and Cape Verde (Kaas and Van Belle 1985b), Savage Islands (Ilhas Selvagens) (Albuquerque et al. 2009) to Mauritania (Anseeuw and Verstraeten 2009), and now the Azores (this work). Intertidal down to 20 m depth.
- license
- cc-by-3.0
- copyright
- Sérgio P. Ávila, Julia Sigwart
- bibliographic citation
- Ávila S, Sigwart J (2013) New records for the shallow-water chiton fauna (Mollusca, Polyplacophora) of the Azores (NE Atlantic) ZooKeys 312: 23–38
- author
- Sérgio P. Ávila
- author
- Julia Sigwart
