Callochiton empleurus

Taxobox
name = "Callochiton empleurus"
status =
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Mollusca
classis = Polyplacophora
ordo = Neoloricata
subordo = Ischnochitonina
familia = Callochitonidae
genus = "Callochiton"
species = "C. empleurus"
binomial = "Callochiton empleurus"
binomial_authority = (Hutton, 1872)
synonyms = "Chiton empleurus" Hutton, 1872

"Callochiton empleurus" is a species of chiton in the family Callochitonidae.

Distribution

This species is endemic to New Zealand's Stewart, Auckland, and Campbell islands.

Habitat

This chiton is found at depths of between 10 and 30 m.

Description

The shell is small, -, with the lateral areas sharply raised, and the sunken central area bearing deep longitudinal pits, nine to ten on each side. The girdle is packed with exceedingly fine elongated scales.

Coloration is variable, with pale streaks down the dorsal ridge, to uniformly brick-red.

Length is up to 22 mm, and the width is up to 9 mm.

References

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