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Taxonomy
Family:
ISCHNOCHITONIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Polyplacophora (Class)
> Neoloricata (Subclass)
> Chitonida (Order)
> Chitonoidea (Superfamily)
> Ischnochitonidae (Family)
> Stenosemus (Genus)
> beui (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Chiton (Stenosemus) Middendorff, 1847
=Chondropleura Thiele, 1906
=Ischnochiton (Chondropleura) Thiele, 1906
=Ischnochiton (Stenosemus) Middendorff, 1847
=Lepidopleuroides Thiele, 1928
=Lophyrochiton Yakovleva, 1952
=Lophyrus Sars, 1878
Synonymised Names:
=Lepidozona beui O'Neill, 1987
Images: Stenosemus beui (O'Neill, 1987)
Holotype, collected 10 Mar 1976, off Kahurangi Shoals, NW of Kahurangi Point, NZ (M.084053). © Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (CC-BY-NC-ND)
Taxonomy
Family:
ISCHNOCHITONIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Polyplacophora (Class)
> Neoloricata (Subclass)
> Chitonida (Order)
> Chitonoidea (Superfamily)
> Ischnochitonidae (Family)
> Stenosemus (Genus)
> beui (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Chiton (Stenosemus) Middendorff, 1847
=Chondropleura Thiele, 1906
=Ischnochiton (Chondropleura) Thiele, 1906
=Ischnochiton (Stenosemus) Middendorff, 1847
=Lepidopleuroides Thiele, 1928
=Lophyrochiton Yakovleva, 1952
=Lophyrus Sars, 1878
Synonymised Names:
=Lepidozona beui O'Neill, 1987
Details: Stenosemus beui (O'Neill, 1987)
Size/Grows to:
Length 25mm
Distribution:
Off Kahurangi Shoals, northwest Kahurangi Point, Fiordland, Cook Strait, Chatham Rise, East Cape and Three Kings Rise
Geographical Range:
ACFME.
Notes:
Chiton, Marine, Endemic
Distribution Map
 
References and Publications
  • O'Neill, M.H.B. 1987 Lepidozona beui n.sp. (Mollusca: Polyplacophora) from New Zealand, New Zealand Journal of Zoology, 14(1) (p.131)

*98 © Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (CC-BY-NC-ND)

Key to Geographical Ranges
NZ Map showing Geographical Ranges
The symbols K.A.C.F.M.An. are used to indicate the geographical range of the species. They have been adopted to give an approximation of the range of each species within New Zealand.
K=
Kermadec Islands
A=
Aupourian - Kaipara Harbour, north around North Cape, encompassing the Three Kings Islands and south to East Cape
C=
Cookian - Lower North Island and the northern part of the South Island
F=
Forsterian - Otago, Fiordland and Stewart Island
M=
Moriorian - Chatham Islands, Pitt Island
An=
Antipodean - Subantarctic Islands of New Zealand
Fw =
Freshwater
L =
Land
N =
North Island
S =
South Island
E =
Endemic
I =
Introduced
R =
Recent
Sf =
Subfossil
Fo =
Fossil
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