Belknapchiton Sirenko, Saito & Schwabe 2022
- Dataset
- A small collection of rare and new chitons (Mollusca: Polyplacophora) from the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery
- Rank
- GENUS
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Mollusca
- class
- Polyplacophora
- order
- Lepidopleurida
- family
- Leptochitonidae
- genus
- Belknapchiton
type_taxon
Type species. Leptochiton belknapi Dall, 1878, by original designation (Sirenko, Saito & Schwabe 2022). Genus distribution. Pacific Ocean, from Asia to America and from Bering Sea to south Australia and New Zealand, Indian and Atlantic oceans. Recent-Pliocene, 20 – 4600 m, mainly deeper 200 m (Sirenko et al. 2022).