Mucrosquama

Mucrosquama
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Polyplacophora
Order: Chitonida
Family: Chitonidae
Subfamily: Chitoninae
Genus:
Iredale & Hull, 1926
Type species
Mucrosquama carnosus
(Angas, 1867)

Mucrosquama is a genus of chitons, a polyplacophoran mollusc in the family Chitonidae, first described in 1926 by Tom Iredale and Arthur Francis Basset Hull.[1][2] The type species is Mucrosquama carnosus first described as Chiton carnosus by Angas in 1867.[1][2]

There are two species in this genus:[3]

  • Mucrosquama carnosa (Angas, 1867)
  • Mucrosquama verconis (Torr & Ashby, 1898)

Two further species have been named but are synonymised with those above.[3]

  • Mucrosquama nielseni Cotton & Weeding, 1939 accepted as Mucrosquama carnosa (Angas, 1867)
  • Mucrosquama sheardi Cotton & Weeding, 1939 accepted as Mucrosquama verconis (Torr & Ashby, 1898)

References

  1. ^ a b "Genus Mucrosquama Iredale & Hull, 1926". Australian Faunal Directory.
  2. ^ a b Tom Iredale; A.F. Bassett Hull (1926). "A monograph of the Australian loricates (Phylum Mollusca – Order Loricata). VI". Australian Zoologist. 4: 182. ISSN 0067-2238. Wikidata Q111794233.
  3. ^ a b "WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species - Mucrosquama Iredale & Hull, 1926". www.marinespecies.org. Retrieved 2022-05-01.
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