WoRMS taxon details
Nomenclatureoriginal description
Sirenko B.I. (2019). New chitons (Mollusca: Polyplacophora) of the genera Rhyssoplax, Lucilina and Onithochiton from shallow waters of Papua New Guinea. <em>The Bulletin of the Russian Far East Malacological Society.</em> 23(1-2): 63-81. page(s): 74, figs. 9-11, 12A [details] Available for editors [request]
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Distribution Known only from the type locality [details]
Etymology Named in honour of the Russian ethnographer Nikolay Miklukho-Maklay, who studied the populations of South-East Asia, Australia and Oceania, including the indigenous tribes of North-Eastern Papua New Guinea in Astrolabe Bay [details]
Type locality Papua New Guinea, Astrolabe Bay, Bilibili Island, intertidal, rocks [details]
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