Description

Type species. Chiton albus Linnaeus, 1767, subsequently designated by Winckworth (1926). Genus distribution and range. All oceans in cold and temperate waters, usually not more than 14 ºC, intertidal to 4572 m. Miocene – Recent (Sirenko 2023).

Common Names

Taxonomic Hierarchy

Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Mollusca

Class: Polyplacophora

Order: Chitonida

Family: Ischnochitonidae

Genus: Stenosemus

Species: Stenosemus Middendorff, 1847