Description ¹

Small chiton, 6 to 8.5mm long, 3 to 4mm wide. Plates are pale pink with a green tinge to pale brown. The usual radial and front to back parallel ridges are made up of closely packed beads which become short spines along the rear edge.

Distribution ¹

Found from 20 to 100m. Otago Heads , Stewart Island.

Synonyms ¹

Lepidopleurus finlayi Ashby, 1929
Leptochiton finlayi Ashby, 1929

http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=385795

References ¹

New Zealand Mollusca, Marine Land and Freshwater Shells, A W B Powell, 1979

Sources and Credits

1. (c) Tony Wills, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA)

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