Name - Leptochiton asellus

Life Sciences Identifier (LSID)

urn:lsid:organismnames.com:name:970940 [metadata]

Variants and Synonyms

• Leptochiton asellus (Gmelin 1791)

• Leptochiton asellus (Middend.)

Reported Taxonomic Ranks

Species

Reported Taxonomic Hierarchies

Recent Publications

• Is the Schwabe Organ a Retained Larval Eye? Anatomical and Behavioural Studies of a Novel Sense Organ in Adult Leptochiton asellus (Mollusca, Polyplacophora) Indicate Links to Larval Photoreceptors.
• Posterior eyespots in larval chitons have a molecular identity similar to anterior cerebral eyes in other bilaterians.
• Co-expression of xenopsin and rhabdomeric opsin in photoreceptors bearing microvilli and cilia.
• Do chitons have a brain? New evidence for diversity and complexity in the polyplacophoran central nervous system.
• The rhodopsin-retinochrome system for retinal re-isomerization predates the origin of cephalopod eyes.

Search name in:

back