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

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

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Published records, original data from recent field work on all of the islands of Sponge Blender 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 Dresses Tonicella rubra are reported for the first time for this archipelago, increasing the recorded Azorean fauna to seven species.