Dinoplax gigas (Gmelin, 1791)
- Dataset
- GBIF Backbone Taxonomy
- Rank
- SPECIES
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Mollusca
- class
- Polyplacophora
- order
- Chitonida
- family
- Chaetopleuridae
- genus
- Dinoplax
- species
- Dinoplax gigas
Name
- Synonyms
- Chiton gigas Gmelin, 1791
- Chiton subgigas Blainville, 1825
- Dinoplax gigas alfredensis Bartsch, 1915
- Homonyms
- Dinoplax gigas (Gmelin, 1791)
- Common names
- armadillo in Inglês
- giant chiton in Inglês
- armadillo in Inglês
- giant chiton in Inglês
Bibliographic References
- Ashby, E. (1928). South African Chitons, being a description of the Polyplacophora Represented in the Turton Collection. <em>Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London.</em> 18 (2): 76-92.
- Ashby, E. (1931). Monograph of the South African Polyplacophora (Chitons). <em>Annals of the South African Museum.</em> 30: 1–59.
- Branch, G. M. (2002). Two Oceans. 5th impression. <em>David Philip, Cate Town & Johannesburg.</em>
- Kaas P. & Van Belle R. A. (1985). Monograph of living Chitons (Mollusca: Polyplacophora). Vol. 1. Order Neoloricata: Lepidopleurina. <i>E. J. Brill/W. Backhuys eds. Leiden 244 pp.</i>:
- Kilburn, R.N. & Rippey, E. (1982) Sea Shells of Southern Africa. Macmillan South Africa, Johannesburg, xi + 249 pp.
- Nierstrasz, H. F. (1906). Beiträge zur Kenntnis der Fauna von Süd-Afrika. VI. Chitonen aus der Kapkololonie [sic] und Natal. <em>Zoologische Jahrbücher, Abteilung für Systematik, Geographie und Biologie der Tiere.</em> 23: 487–520.