Hanleya

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Hanleya
Temporal range: Oligocene–Miocene [1]
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Hanleya hanleyi
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Polyplacophora
Order: Lepidopleurida
Family: Hanleyidae
Genus: Hanleya
Gray, 1857

Hanleya is a genus of polyplacophoran molluscs 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

  1. 1 2 van Belle, R. A. (1981). Catalogue of Fossil Chitons. ISBN   90 6279 018 6.
  2. Xu, Fengshan (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. S2CID   84087806.
  3. 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. BRILL. ISBN   9789004100077.
  4. Jardim, Jaime; Simone, Luiz Ricardo Lopes (2010). "Corrigenda for the paper "Redescription of Hanleya brachyplax (Polyplacophora, Hanleyidae) from the south-southeastern Brazilian coast" (PDF). Strombus. 17 (1–2): 14–15. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-05-28.
  5. Jardim, Jaime A.; Simone, Luiz Ricardo L. (2010). "Redescription of Hanleya brachyplax (Polyplacophora, Hanleyidae) from the south-southeastern Brazilian coast". Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia. 50 (40): 623–633. doi: 10.1590/S0031-10492010004000001 . ISSN   0031-1049.
  6. Graham, A. (1955). "Molluscan diets". Journal of Molluscan Studies. 31 (3–4): 144–158. doi:10.1093/oxfordjournals.mollus.a064734. ISSN   0260-1230.