Description

Diagnosis Animal small (to 15.0 mm), elevated (dorsal elevation of valve V 0.36), back rounded. Head valves, lateral areas of intermediate valves, postmucronal areas sculptured with roundish granules arranged without distinct order, pleural areas of intermediate valves sculptured with long granules, ratio of granule length to granule width in pleural areas, 2.5 – 3.0; interspaces between rows of granules on pleural areas twice as large as width of granules; width of jugal sinus equal to width of apophyses in intermediate valves; insertion plate of tail valve well developed and pectinate; each granule contains a single megalaesthete and 12 – 13 micraesthetes. Valves and girdle buff coloured, spotted with brown and white. Dorsal spicules of girdle flat with one central longitudinal rib distally terminated with sharp beak. Radula with 15 transverse rows of mature teeth; exterior denticle of major lateral teeth of radula half the size of interior one, width of central denticle is equal to its length.

Common Names

Taxonomic Hierarchy

Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Mollusca

Class: Polyplacophora

Order: Lepidopleurida

Family: Hanleyidae

Genus: Hanleya

Species: Hanleya harasewychi Sirenko, 2014