Chaetopleura angulata Spengler, 1797

Chaetopleura angulata Spengler, 1797 View in CoL

Chaetopleura fulva (Wood, 1815) View in CoL ; Morais 1941, p. 4; Dell’Angelo & Silva 2003, p. 9.

Chaetopleura angulata Spengler, 1797 View in CoL ; Dell’Angelo & Smriglio 1999, p. 165; Puchalski et al. 2008 (database: chiton fossil records).

Remarks. Morais (1941) reported Chaetopleura fulva (Wood, 1815) , now accepted as Chaetopleura angulata Spengler, 1797 , in a list of molluscs from the Pliocene of Marinha Grande ( Guarda Nova and Matos), Portugal. The fossils were identified by Reginald Cox, palaeontologist at the British Museum (Natural History), but unfortunately, no description or illustration of the valve(s) were given.According to Morais (1941), the malacofauna from Marinha Grande was presented to the Minerological and Geological Museum of the University of Coimbra, but it was impossible to locate such material ( Dell’Angelo & Silva 2003: p. 9).

Chaetopleura angulata lives along the West coast of the Iberian Peninsula, as as well as in South America from Cabo Frio, Brasil, to Cape Horn ( Kaas & Van Belle 1988). The fossil record is known from the Pleistocene of Uruguay ( Figueiras 1961) and a single record from the Pliocene of Portugal ( Morais 1941), not further confirmed by later studies.