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Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota (CAAB) Taxon Report
Animalia (kingdom) » Mollusca (phylum) » Polyplacophora (class) » Lepidopleurida (order) » Leptochitonidae (family)
| CAAB Code: | 23 101006 |
| Scientific Name and Authority: | Leptochiton fairchildi (Iredale & Hull, 1929) |
| CAAB category: | 23 - Mollusca - non-Gastropod groups Bivalves, Cephalopods, Chitons, etc. | |
| Family: | 23 101 Leptochitonidae (chitons) - show full list | |
| Common Name: | [a chiton] | |
| Organism Type: | a chiton | |
| Synonyms: | Terenochiton fairchildi | |
| Taxon lists: |
Current Australian list:
 Species not on current Australian list, but occuring in subantarctic/Antarctic waters: Commercial species list: Standard Fish Names List: | |
| Regions: |
Australia (inc. subantarctic territories) Southern Ocean (non coastal) | |
| Habitat: |
Marine unspecified | |
| Parent Codes: |
23 101901
Leptochiton spp. |
Identifiers: |
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| Record source: | Gowlett-Holmes, K.L., 2001. Polyplacophora. In: Wells, A. Houston, W.W.K., Editors, Mollusca: Aplacophora, Polyplacophora, Scaphopoda, Cephalopoda.. Zoological Catalogue of Australia, Vol. 17.2: 19-84. CSIRO Publishing, Melbourne 353pp. |
| Scientific Name verified against: | Sirenko, B., 2020. New Zealand and Australian species of the genus Leptochiton (Mollusca: Polyplacophora)., Zootaxa, Vol. 4851(3): 401-449. . doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4851.3.1. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4851.3.1 |