« All the authors confused this species, which is found in Mediterranean only, with Linné’s Chiton squamosus, which is rather different. The figures, given by Poli, of the mediterranean species, are magnified; this magnification, which has not been mentionned, helped in confusing the two species, and we restore them today, by giving the one figured by Poli the name of this famous neapolitan anatomist. » – G. P. Deshayes: “Mollusques” in Bory de Saint-Vincent: Expédition scientifique de Morée, Paris 1833.

The underside shows two generic features: S - each of the lateral protrusions, called “insertion plates”, bear a single slit; these plates, which are not very developed in this species, hang the valve to the mantle. JS – The jugal sinus, between the two sutural laminae, is denticulate.