Lepidopleurus fairchildi

Taxobox
name = "Lepidopleurus fairchildi"
status =
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Mollusca
classis = Polyplacophora
ordo = Chitonida
subordo = Lepidopleurina
familia = Leptochitonidae
genus = Lepidopleurus
species = "L. fairchildi"
binomial = "Lepidopleurus fairchildi"
binomial_authority = Iredale and Hull, 1929
synonyms = "Lepidopleurus kerguelenensis" Hedley, 1916
"Terenochiton fairchildi" Iredale and Hull, 1929

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

Distribution

This species is endemic to Australia's Macquarie Island in the Southern Ocean south of New Zealand.

Habitat

This chiton lives on intertidal rocks.

hell description

The shell is very small, narrowly elongate-ovate, with an almost smooth surface.

Coloration is pink.

Length is up to 8 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