Notoplax aupouria is a very rare species of chiton in the family Acanthochitonidae.

Distribution

This species is endemic to New Zealand's Three Kings Islands.

Habitat

This chiton is only known from a few median valves, taken at a depth of about 170 m.

Description

The median valves have the tegmentum relatively small and narrowly triangular, but the sutural laminae is very wide. The jugum is a smooth narrow subparallel strip, and the rest of the tegmentum has eleven rows of oval pustules on each side.

Coloration is pinkish-buff, with white laminae.

Height of a median valve is up to 3.6 mm, and width up to 3.5 mm.

References

• Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1