Leptochiton Gray, 1847

Sigwart, Julia D. & Sirenko, Boris I., 2012, Deep-sea chitons from sunken wood in the West Pacific (Mollusca: Polyplacophora: Lepidopleurida): taxonomy, distribution, and seven new species, Zootaxa 3195, pp. 1-38 : 9

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Leptochiton Gray, 1847
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Type species. Chiton cinereus Linnaeus, 1767 sensu Montagu (1803: misapplication of name, subsequently designated by Gray 1847) = Leptochiton asellus (Gmelin, 1791) .

Diagnosis. Valves without insertion plates. Animals small, usually not exceeding 20 mm length. Girdle clothed with small scales, sometimes interspersed with spicules, or wholly spiculose.

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