(Bean in Thorpe, 1844)

Description (shell):
Elongate oval, about two and a half times long as broad. Highly arched, with distinct sharp keel and pronounced beaks. Sculpture of coarse granules, in longitudinal series, particularly marked laterally, and on head valve and tail valve, where they are developed as protruding tubercles. Girdle narrow, covered with small, flat scales interspersed with fine, recumbent spines; fringed with similar spines (H. hanleyi-detail).

Size:
Up to 22 mm long.

Colour:
Shell valves off-white to yellowish.

Habitat:
Lower shore and sublittoral.

Distribution:
Northern coasts only (Distr. H. hanleyi).

Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Mollusca
Class Polyplacophora
Order Lepidopleurida
Family Hanleyidae
Genus Hanleya
Species Hanleya hanleyi

Status in World Register of Marine Species

Accepted name: Hanleya hanleyi (Bean in Thorpe, 1844)

Scientific synonyms and common names

Chiton hanleyi Bean in Thorpe, 1844
Hanleya debilis Gray J.E., 1857
Lepidopleurus carinatus Dall, 1927; non Lepidopleurus carinatus Leach, 1852
Hanleya dalli Kaas, 1957

Hayward, P.J., Wigham, G.D. & N. Yonow, 1990. Mollusca I: Polyplacophora, Scaphopoda, and Gastropoda. In: The Marine Fauna of the British Isles and North-West Europe. (ed. P.J. Hayward & J.S. Ryland). Clarendon Press, Oxford: 628-730.

Jones, A.M. & J.M. Baxter, 1987. Molluscs: Caudofoveata, Solenogastres, Polyplacophora and Scaphopoda. Synopses of the British fauna (NS), 37: 1-123.

Kaas, P. & R.A. van Belle, 1985. Monograph of Living Chitons (Mollusca Polyplacophora). Vols 1-4. E. J. Brill, Leiden/New York/København/Köln.

Poppe, G.T. & Y. Goto, 1991. European Seashells. Vol. I. 352 pp. Wiesbaden/Verlag Christa Hemmen.

Seaward, D.R., 1990. Distribution of the marine molluscs of north west Europe. Nature Conservancy Council.

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