Lepidopleurus finlayi

Taxobox
name = "Lepidopleurus finlayi"
status =
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Mollusca
classis = Polyplacophora
ordo = Chitonida
subordo = Lepidopleurina
familia = Leptochitonidae
genus = Lepidopleurus
species = "L. finlayi"
binomial = "Lepidopleurus finlayi"
binomial_authority = (Ashby, 1929)

"Lepidopleurus finlayi" is a species of chiton in the family Leptochitonidae.

Distribution

This species is endemic to the Otago coast in the South Island of New Zealand.

Habitat

This chiton lives under stones from just below high water mark to depths of up to 25 m.

hell description

The shell is small, narrowly ovate, and medially carinated. The sculpture is rather coarse, consisting of radial and longitudinal rows of closely packed granules, those along the posterior edge of the valves larger and projecting as short blunt spines.

Coloration is greenish-buff to pale brown.

Length is up to 8.5 mm, and the width is up to 4 mm.

References

* Powell A. W. B., "New Zealand Mollusca", William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1