Lepidopleurus

Lepidopleurus Temporal range: Paleocene–Miocene[1] PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Polyplacophora
Order:	Lepidopleurida
Family:	Leptochitonidae
Subfamily:	Leptochitoninae
Genus:	Lepidopleurus Risso, 1826
Species
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Lepidopleurus is an extant[2] genus of chitons in the family Leptochitonidae.

Species

• Lepidopleurus cajetanus (Poli, 1791)
• Lepidopleurus fairchildi Iredale & Hull, 1929
• Lepidopleurus finlayi (Ashby, 1929)
• Lepidopleurus inquinatus (Reeve, 1847)
• Lepidopleurus otagoensis Iredale & Hull, 1929
• Lepidopleurus pergranatus

References

1. van Belle, R. A. (1981). Catalogue of Fossil Chitons. ISBN 90 6279 018 6.
2. Vendrasco, M. J.; Fernandez, C. Z.; Eernisse, D. J.; Runnegar, B. (2008). "Aesthete canal morphology in the Mopaliidae (Polyplacophora)*". American Malacological Bulletin. 25: 51–69. doi:10.4003/0740-2783-25.1.51. S2CID 86123247.

• "Lepidopleurus". Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
• Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1