Lepidochitona spp
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Plazi |
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Lepidochitona spp |
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Lepidochitona spp . from the NE Atlantic area
Seventeen species of Lepidochitona are reported from this area, two of which [ L. canariensis ( Thiele, 1909) and L. cinerea ( Linnaeus, 1767) ] are also present in the Mediterranean area. The main characters of the species considered here are given in Tab. 18, while the characters of L. cinerea have been included in Tab. 17. Five species, before attributed to the genus Tonicella Carpenter, 1873 , and recently included in the genus Lepidochitona Gray, 1821 by Sirenko & Dell’Angelo (2023), are characterized by the tegmentum smooth and the pores of megalaesthetes and micraesthetes of the same diameter, and the main characters of these species are given in Tab. 19.
personal observations).
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