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Taxonomy
Family:
ISCHNOCHITONIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Polyplacophora (Class)
> Neoloricata (Subclass)
> Chitonida (Order)
> Chitonoidea (Superfamily)
> Ischnochitonidae (Family)
> Stenosemus (Genus)
> beui (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Chiton (Stenosemus) Middendorff, 1847
=Chondropleura Thiele, 1906
=Ischnochiton (Chondropleura) Thiele, 1906
=Ischnochiton (Stenosemus) Middendorff, 1847
=Lepidopleuroides Thiele, 1928
=Lophyrochiton Yakovleva, 1952
=Lophyrus G.O. Sars, 1878
Synonymised Names:
=Lepidozona beui O'Neill, 1987
Images: Stenosemus beui (O'Neill, 1987)
Holotype, collected 10 Mar 1976, off Kahurangi Shoals, NW of Kahurangi Point, NZ (M.084053). © Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (CC-BY-NC-ND)
Taxonomy
Family:
ISCHNOCHITONIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Polyplacophora (Class)
> Neoloricata (Subclass)
> Chitonida (Order)
> Chitonoidea (Superfamily)
> Ischnochitonidae (Family)
> Stenosemus (Genus)
> beui (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Chiton (Stenosemus) Middendorff, 1847
=Chondropleura Thiele, 1906
=Ischnochiton (Chondropleura) Thiele, 1906
=Ischnochiton (Stenosemus) Middendorff, 1847
=Lepidopleuroides Thiele, 1928
=Lophyrochiton Yakovleva, 1952
=Lophyrus G.O. Sars, 1878
Synonymised Names:
=Lepidozona beui O'Neill, 1987
Details: Stenosemus beui (O'Neill, 1987)
Size/Grows to:
Length 25mm
Distribution:
North Island, Cook Strait, north-western and south-western South Island and Chatham Rise, from 53-805m
Type Data:
  • 90 metres, off Kahurangi Shoals, NW of Kahurangi Point, NZ, (holotype)
  • Ca. 220 metres, NW Mana Island, NW Cook Strait, NZ, (paratype)
  • 400-450 metres, 41 km SE of Cape Campbell, NZ, (paratype)
  • 240 metres, E of Forty Fours, Chatham Islands, NZ, (paratype of Loricella profundior (Dell, 1956))
Notes:
Chiton, Marine, Native - Endemic
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References and Publications
  • O'Neill, M.H.B. 1987 Lepidozona beui n.sp. (Mollusca: Polyplacophora) from New Zealand, New Zealand Journal of Zoology, 14(1) (p.131)

NZ Geographical Regions
Key to symbols used in Checklist.
Fw =
Freshwater
L =
Land
N =
North Island
S =
South Island
R =
Recent
Sf =
Subfossil
Fo =
Fossil
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