Hanleya
| Hanleya Temporal range: Oligocene–Miocene[1] |
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Scientific classification  |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Polyplacophora |
| Order: | Neoloricata |
| Family: | Hanleyidae |
| Genus: | Hanleya Gray, 1857 |
Hanleya is a genus of polyplacophoran mollusc known from Oligocene and Miocene fossils;[1] it is represented today by a number of species including H. sinica Xu 1990 (China),[2][3]H. brachyplax (Brazil)[4][5] and H. hanleyi Bean in Thorpe, 1844 (Chile), which feeds on sponges.[6]
References
- ^ a b van Belle, R. A. (1981). Catalogue of Fossil Chitons. ISBN 90 6279 018 6.
- ^ Fengshan, X. (1990). "New genus and species of Polyplacophora (Mollusca) from the East China Sea". Chinese Journal of Oceanology and Limnology 8 (4): 374–377. Bibcode:1990ChJOL...8..374X. doi:10.1007/BF02849683.
- ^ Kaas, P; Van Belle, R. A (1994). Monograph of Living Chitons (Mollusca: Polyplacophora). , Volume 5 Suborder Ischnochitonina: Ischnochitonidae: Ischnochitoninae (concluded), Callistoplacinae; Mopaliidae. Additions to Volumes. 1-4. ISBN 9789004100077.
- ^ Jardim, Jaime; Simone, Luiz Ricardo Lopes (2010). "Corrigenda for the paper "Redescription of Hanleya brachyplax (Polyplacophora, Hanleyidae) from the south-southeastern Brazilian coast". Strombus 17 (1-2): 14–15.
- ^ "Redescription of Hanleya brachyplax (Polyplacophora, Hanleyidae) from the south-southeastern Brazilian coast". Pap. Avulsos Zool. (São Paulo) 50 (40). 2010. doi:10.1590/S0031-10492010004000001. ISSN 0031-1049.
- ^ Graham, A. (1955). "Molluscan diets". Journal of Molluscan Studies (Malacological Soc London) 31 (3–4): 144. ISSN 0260-1230.
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