Rhyssoplax clavata

Taxobox
name = "Rhyssoplax clavata"


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regnum = Animalia
phylum = Mollusca
classis = Polyplacophora
ordo = Chitonida
subordo = Chitonina
superfamilia = Chitonoidea
familia = Chitonidae
genus = "Rhyssoplax"
species = "R. clavata"
binomial = "Rhyssoplax clavata"
binomial_authority = (Suter, 1907)
synonyms = "Chiton clavatus" Suter, 1907

"Rhyssoplax clavata" is an uncommon species of chiton in the family Chitonidae.

Distribution

This species is endemic to New Zealand's Hauraki Gulf.

Habitat

Description

The shell is rather small. Sculpture is of eight or nine radial ribs on the head valve, two on the lateral areas of the median valves, and ten on the tail valve. The central area has six to eight short shallow longitudinal grooves on each side.

Coloration is variable, grey or greyish-brown, mottled with light and dark green.

Length is up to 16 mm, and width up to 10 mm.

References

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