Report of a chiton in the genus <i>Leptochiton</i> (Lepidopleurida: Lepidopleurina: Leptochitonidae) from the Yap Trench in the West Pacific Ocean

WANG Chunsheng; ZHOU Yadong; JIANG Dan; HAN Jie

doi:10.1007/s13131-018-1327-9

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WANG Chunsheng, ZHOU Yadong, JIANG Dan, HAN Jie. Report of a chiton in the genus Leptochiton (Lepidopleurida: Lepidopleurina: Leptochitonidae) from the Yap Trench in the West Pacific Ocean[J]. Acta Oceanologica Sinica, 2018, 37(10): 205-208. doi: 10.1007/s13131-018-1327-9

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WANG Chunsheng, ZHOU Yadong, JIANG Dan, HAN Jie. Report of a chiton in the genus Leptochiton (Lepidopleurida: Lepidopleurina: Leptochitonidae) from the Yap Trench in the West Pacific Ocean[J]. Acta Oceanologica Sinica, 2018, 37(10): 205-208. doi: 10.1007/s13131-018-1327-9

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Report of a chiton in the genus Leptochiton (Lepidopleurida: Lepidopleurina: Leptochitonidae) from the Yap Trench in the West Pacific Ocean

doi: 10.1007/s13131-018-1327-9

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Key Laboratory of Marine Ecosystem and Biogeochemistry, Second Institute of Oceanography, State Oceanic Administration, Hangzhou 310012, China
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Ministry of Education Key Laboratory for Biodiversity Science and Ecological Engineering, College of Life Sciences, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China

Received Date: 2017-12-01

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Two chiton specimens were collected from sedimentary habitat by China's manned Jiaolong submersible diving to a depth of 6 754 m in the north of the Yap Trench. This is a new locality record for chiton. Both morphological and molecular data support that the two specimens are the same species belonging to the genus Leptochiton. Morphologically, this species strongly resembles L. vanbellei and L. deforgesi. Phylogenetically, it has a close evolutionary relationship with L. vanbellei, L. deforgesi and L. boucheti. This is the third deepest record for deep-sea chitons so far.
- chiton,
- Leptochiton,
- the West Pacific Ocean,
- the Yap Trench

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