Description ¹

Small chiton. Front plate proportionately very large, and skirt/girdle narrows towards the rear. Fine radial lines on the front plate. The rear plate and the middle of other plates has fine back to front lines/ridges, and there are also fine radial lines on the rear plate. Plates are a reddy-brown with mottles of off white and brick-red.

Distribution ¹

240m deep, Forty Fours Islands, Chathams.

Synonyms ¹

Paricoplax profundior (Dell, 1956) (original combination)

http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=386187

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

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