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WoRMS taxon details

Leptochiton vietnamensis Sirenko, 1998

AphiaID

385839 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:385839)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Parent

Leptochiton J. E. Gray, 1847

Original name

Leptochiton vietnamensis Sirenko, 1998

Environment

marine

Original description

Sirenko, B. I. (1998). One more deep water chiton Leptochiton vietnamensis sp. n. (Mollusca, Polyplacophora) living and feeding on sunken wood from the South China Sea. Ruthenica. 8(1): 1-6. [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2026). MolluscaBase. Leptochiton vietnamensis Sirenko, 1998. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=385839 on 2026-03-24

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2009-03-23 07:54:34Z

created

Schwabe, Enrico

2009-03-23 08:24:45Z

changed

Schwabe, Enrico

Licensing

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Nomenclature

original description Sirenko, B. I. (1998). One more deep water chiton Leptochiton vietnamensis sp. n. (Mollusca, Polyplacophora) living and feeding on sunken wood from the South China Sea. Ruthenica. 8(1): 1-6. [details]

Other

additional source Sirenko B. (2016). New, rare bathyal leptochitons (Mollusca, Polyplacophora) from the South and West Pacific. in: Héros, V. et al. (Ed.) Tropical Deep-Sea Benthos 29. Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (1993). 208: 25-63. (look up in IMIS) [details]