original description
Leloup, E. (1981). Chitons de Tuléar, Réunion, Maurice et Tahiti. <em>Bulletin de l'Institut royal des Sciences naturelles de Belgique: Biologie - Bulletin van het Koninklijk Belgisch Instituut voor Natuurwetenschappen: Biologie.</em> 53 (3): 1-46., available online at http://biblio.naturalsciences.be/rbins-publications/bulletin-of-the-royal-belgian-institute-of-natural-sciences-biologie/bulletin-of-the-royal-belgian-institute-of-natural-sciences-biology/53-1981/biologie-1981-53-3-_1-46.pdf
page(s): 36, fig. 19, pl. 2, fig. 3 [details]
additional source
Kaas, P. & Van Belle, R. A. (1998). Catalogue of living chitons (Mollusca, Polyplacophora). second, revised edition. 1-204; Backhyus Publishers Leiden.
page(s): 58 [details]
source of synonymy
Kaas P. & Van Belle R. A. (1994). Monograph of living Chitons (Mollusca: Polyplacophora). Vol. 5. Suborder Ischnochitonina. Ischnochitonidae: Ischnochitoninae (concluded), Callistoplacinae; Mopaliidae. Additions to Volumes 1-4. <em>E. J. Brill, Leiden.</em> 402 pp.
page(s): 269. [details]
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