Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Stenoplax petaloides
Chiton, Quiton
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Mollusca
Class
Polyplacophora
Order
Chitonida
Suborder
Chitonina
Superfamily
Chitonoidea
Family
Ischnochitonidae
Genus
Stenoplax
Species
petaloides
Taxon category: Accepted
Syn.: Chiton petaloides Gould, 1846, Stenoplax (Stenoplax) petaloides (Gould, 1846) fide (Horton et al., 2021).
Origin: Native
Map of specimen collection localities or observation records for this species in our collections database.
- Horton, T. Horton, T., Kroh, A., Ahyong, S., Bailly, N., Boyko, C. B., Brandão, S. N., Gofas, S., Hooper, J. N. A., Hernandez, F., Holovachov, O., Mees, J., Molodtsova, T. N., Paulay, G., Decock, W., Dekeyzer, S., Poffyn, G., Vandepitte, L., Vanhoorne, B., Adlard, R., ... Zhao, Z. (2021) World Register of Marine Species. Available from https://www.marinespecies.org at VLIZ.
- Kay, E.A. (1991) The Marine Mollusks of the Galapagos. Determinants of insular marine Faunas. In: James, M.J. (ed.): Galápagos Marine Invertebrate. Taxonomy, Biogeography, and Evolution in Darwin's Islands. Plenum Press. New York and London, p. 235-252.
- Palma, R.L. Peck, S.B. (2013) An annotated checklist of parasitic lice (Insecta: Phthiraptera) from the Galápagos Islands Zootaxa 3627 (1): 001–087
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"Galapagos Species Database, Stenoplax petaloides", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=19979. Accessed 1 November 2026.