• DOI:10.3897/ZSE.91.8536
Corpus ID: 59024036

The shallow-water chitons (Mollusca, Polyplacophora) of Caldera, Region of Atacama, northern Chile

@article{Araya2015TheSC,
  title={The shallow-water chitons (Mollusca, Polyplacophora) of Caldera, Region of Atacama, northern Chile},
  author={J. F. Araya and Marta Esther Araya},
  journal={Zoosystematics and Evolution},
  year={2015},
  volume={91},
  pages={45-58}
}

J. F. Araya, Marta Esther Araya

Published 2015

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Zoosystematics and Evolution

The Molluscan species of the northern littoral of Chile have been sparsely studied. This work reviews for the first time the diversity of polyplacophoran molluscs around the port of Caldera, in the Region of Atacama (26°45’49”S; 70°45’17”W to 27°20’23”S; 70°56’46”W), northern Chile. Eleven species were found in this study: Acanthopleura echinata (Barnes, 1824); Callistochiton pulchellus (Gray, 1828); Calloplax vivipara (Plate, 1899), Chaetopleura peruviana (Lamarck, 1819); Chiton cumingsii… CONTINUE READING

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