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

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. © Sérgio P. Ávila, Julia Sigwart.