Description ¹

Medium size, 11.5 to 22mm long, 7 to 9mm wide. The skirt/girdle is covered by fine stretched scales. Plates from pink with lighter longitudinal marks along the crest through to dark red. Plates have raised sides and about 9 deep indents either side of the crest

Distribution ¹

Has been found between 10 to 30m deep. Stewart Island, Auckland Islands, Campbell Islands.

Synonyms ¹

Chiton empleurus (Hutton, 1872) (original combination)
Icoplax subeudoxa (Iredale and Hull, 1930)

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)

More Info

• iNaturalist NZ taxon page
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