Sypharochiton torri

Taxobox
name = "Sypharochiton torri"


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

"Sypharochiton torri" is a species of chiton in the family Chitonidae.

Distribution

This species is endemic to New Zealand, at the southern extremity of the South Island, and Stewart Island.

Description

The shell is very small, narrowly ovate, and without ribbing, smooth to the eye but crowded with minute pustules that form wrinkled patterns.

Coloration is dark brown, almost black.

Length is up to 10 mm, and width up to 6 mm.

References

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