Journal of the Marine Biological Association of India

Studies on the common rocky Egyptian chiton Acanthopleura gemmata (Mollusea : polyplacophora) in the Northwestern Red Sea.

Volume 34 Issue 1&2

Fathey El-Sayed Soliman and Tito Naeim Habib

Abstract

In the present study on Acanthopleura gemmata (Blainville, 1825), rectification of the species name, its distribution and abundance in the northwestern part of the Red Sea, and the intraspeciflc variation within intermittent subpopulations have been achieved. Within each natural population, two forms, one banded and the other non-banded have been distinguished. The main differences in shell characters, girdle elements and radula features of the two forms have been investigated.

Date : 31-10-1992

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