Chiton magnificus: Brief Summary
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Chiton magnificus, the liquorice sea cradle, is a Southeast Pacific species of edible chiton, a marine polyplacophoran mollusk in the family Chitonidae, the typical chitons.
Chiton magnificus
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Distribution
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Isla San Lorenzo (~12°S), Peru to Fuerte Bulnes (~53.6°S), Chile.
Ibáñez, C. M.; Pardo-Gandarillas, M. C.; Méndez, M. A.; Sellanes, J.; Sigwart, J. D.; Sirenko, B. (2021). Phylogenetic position and morphological descriptions of Chiton species from the south-eastern Pacific. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 191(3): 695-719.
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Description
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Animal of large size, reaching 115 mm in examined specimens. Body dark bluish-grey, broad-oval, slightly carinated, rather flat. Valves flattened to moderately carinated. Anterior valve sligthtly convex, semicircular, with wide V-shaped to straight posterior margin unnotched in middle, with numerous radially arranged, shallow ribs; intermediate valves rectangular with slightly concave posterior margin at both sides of faintly protruding apex, lateral areas slightly elevated, sculptured with up to 5 radial ribs between a wider diagonal ridge and a very wide posterior rib; tail valve semicircular with an anterior mucro; post-mucronal area with same sculpture as head valve and lateral areas (After Schwabe et al. 2006). According to Osorio (2002), this species can reach a maximum length of 174 mm.
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- Araya J, Araya M (2015) The shallow-water chitons (Mollusca, Polyplacophora) of Caldera, Region of Atacama, northern Chile Zoosystematics and Evolution 91(1): 45–58
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- Juan Francisco Araya
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Distribution
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Bullock (1988) gives a distribution for this species from Isla San Lorenzo, Peru south to Bahía Tictoc (43°36’40”S; 72°57’15”W), Chiloé Province, southern Chile. This species can be found in rock pools and boulder fields with strong water exchange, from the intertidal down to a maximum of 30.5 m depth at the Comau Fjord (42°23’S; 72°27’W), Region of Aysén (Schwabe et al. 2006). Smith and Ferreira (1977) considered the records of this species from Galapagos Islands as erroneous.
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- Araya J, Araya M (2015) The shallow-water chitons (Mollusca, Polyplacophora) of Caldera, Region of Atacama, northern Chile Zoosystematics and Evolution 91(1): 45–58
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- Juan Francisco Araya
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- Marta Esther Araya