New records for the shallow-water chiton fauna (Mollusca, Polyplacophora) of the Azores (NE Atlantic)

Sérgio P Avila; Julia Sigwart

doi:10.3897/zookeys.312.4768

New records for the shallow-water chiton fauna (Mollusca, Polyplacophora) of the Azores (NE Atlantic)

Zookeys. 2013 Jun 24:(312):23-38. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.312.4768. Print 2013.

Authors

Sérgio P Avila¹, Julia Sigwart

Affiliation

¹ Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade do Porto Rua do Campo Alegre s/n, Porto ; CIBIO, Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, InBIO Laboratório Associado, Pólo dos Açores, Açores, Portugal ; Departamento de Biologia, Universidade dos Açores, 9501-801 Ponta Delgada, Açores, Portugal.

Abstract

Published records, original data from recent field work on all of the islands of the Azores (NE Atlantic), and a revision of the entire mollusc collection deposited in the Department of Biology of the University of the Azores (DBUA) were used to compile a checklist of the shallow-water Polyplacophora of the Azores. Lepidochitona cf. canariensis and Tonicella rubra are reported for the first time for this archipelago, increasing the recorded Azorean fauna to seven species.

Keywords: Azores; Mollusca; Polyplacophora; biodiversity; checklist.