Callochiton kapitiensis

Taxobox
name = "Callochiton kapitiensis"
status =
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Mollusca
classis = Polyplacophora
ordo = Neoloricata
subordo = Ischnochitonina
familia = Callochitonidae
genus = "Callochiton"
species = "C. kapitiensis"
binomial = "Callochiton kapitiensis"
binomial_authority = Mestayer, 1926
synonyms = "Chiton limans" Suter, 1912

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

Distribution

This species is endemic to New Zealand's Kapiti Island and the coast of the North Island south to Wellington.

Habitat

Description

The shell is small, narrowly ovate, elevated and dorsally ridged. The central area is sculptured with long narrow ribs, the interspaces three to four times their width.

Coloration is variable, pale brownish with the girdle reddish-brown.

Length is up to 9 mm, and the width is up to 5 mm.

References

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