Hanleya

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]

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

References
  1. 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.
  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. 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.


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