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Coat Of Mail Chiton

Leptochiton asellus (Gmelin 1791)

Distribution

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Recent: NE Atlantic Ocean: from Spitsbergen and the Barents Sea South along the Scandinavian coasts; North Sea; all around the British Isles and Ireland, coasts of France, south to Spain and Portugal. Mediterranean Sea: Greece: Limnos Island. Pleistocene, presumably last glacial: Italy: off Bari. Pleistocene: North Atlantic: Sweden and Norway, Netherlands; central Mediterranean, Italy: Pezzo and Capraia/Capo Corso-350/500 m. Lower Pliocene: northeastern Atlantic: U.K.; North Sea Basin, Belgium: Kallo.

Reference

Taviani, M.; Sosso, M.; Dell'Angelo, B. (2023). Chitons from deep-water mollusk-rich deposits in the southwestern Adriatic Sea (Mollusca, Polyplacophora). Diversity. 15(3): 359: 1-17.

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