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Callochiton kapitiensis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Polyplacophora
Order: Neoloricata
Suborder: Ischnochitonina
Family: Callochitonidae
Genus: Callochiton
Species: C. Molluscs are animals belonging to the phylum Mollusca. There are around 250000 extant Species within the phylum with an estimated 70000 Chitons are small to large primitive marine Mollusks in the class Polyplacophora. Callochiton is a genus of Chitons in the family Callochitonidae. kapitiensis
Binomial name
Callochiton kapitiensis
Mestayer, 1926
Synonyms

Chiton limans Suter, 1912

Callochiton kapitiensis is a species of chiton in the family Callochitonidae. In Scientific nomenclature, synonyms are different Scientific names used for a single Taxon. In Biology, a species is one of the basic units of Biological classification and a Taxonomic rank. Chitons are small to large primitive marine Mollusks in the class Polyplacophora. In Biological classification, family ( Latin

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Distribution

This species is endemic to New Zealand's Kapiti Island and the coast of the North Island south to Wellington. Endemism is the Ecological state of being unique to a place Endemic species are not naturally found elsewhere New Zealand is an Island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses (the North Island and the South Island Kapiti Island is a small but conspicuous island about 8 km (5 miles off the west coast of the lower North Island of New Zealand. The North Island is one of the two main islands of New Zealand, the other being the South Island. Wellington (ˈwælɪŋtən is the Capital of New Zealand, the country's second largest urban area, the

Habitat

Description

The shell is small, narrowly ovate, elevated and dorsally ridged. In Anatomy, the dorsum is the upper side of animals that typically run fly or swim in a horizontal position and the back side of animals (like humans that walk upright The central area is sculptured with long narrow ribs, the interspaces three to four times their width. Sculpture on a Mollusc shell is whatever natural 3-dimensional ornamentation exists on the outer surface of a shell apart from the basic shape of the shell itself

Coloration is variable, pale brownish with the girdle reddish-brown. Valves, when referring to Chitons are eight dorsal, articulated shell plates which are frequently brightly coloured and/or sculptured

Length is up to 9 mm, and the width is up to 5 mm. The Millimetre ( American spelling: millimeter, symbol mm) is a unit of Length in the Metric system, equal to

References

Dr Arthur William Baden Powell CBE (4 April 1901 - 1 July 1987 was a New Zealand malacologist, naturalist and Palaeontologist, a HarperCollins is a Publishing company owned by News Corporation. Year 1979 ( MCMLXXIX) was a Common year starting on Monday (link displays the 1979 Gregorian calendar)
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