Plaxiphora

Plaxiphora
Dorsal surface of Plaxiphora albida from Tasmania on display at the Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Milano.
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Polyplacophora
Order: Chitonida
Family: Mopaliidae
Subfamily: Mopaliinae
Genus: Plaxiphora
Gray, 1847
Species

22 species (see text)

Synonyms
  • Aerilamma Hull, 1924
  • Chiton (Plaxiphora) J. E. Gray, 1847
  • Diaphoroplax Iredale, 1914
  • Euplaxiphora Shuttleworth, 1853
  • Frembleya H. Adams, 1867
  • Guildingia P. P. Carpenter, 1882
  • Hachijomopalia Is. Taki, 1954
  • Kopionella Ashby, 1919
  • Maorichiton Iredale, 1914
  • Mopalia (Semimopalia) Dall, 1919
  • Plaxiphora (Diaphoroplax) Iredale, 1914
  • Plaxiphora (Euplaxiphora) Shuttleworth, 1853
  • Plaxiphora (Frembleya) H. Adams, 1867
  • Plaxiphora (Guildingia) P. P. Carpenter, 1882
  • Plaxiphora (Maorichiton) Iredale, 1914
  • Plaxiphora (Mercatora) Leloup, 1942
  • Plaxiphora (Plaxiphora) J. E. Gray, 1847
  • Plaxiphora (Poneroplax) Iredale, 1914
  • Poneroplax Iredale, 1914
  • Streptochiton Dall, 1879
  • Vaferichiton Iredale & Hull, 1932

Plaxiphora is a genus of chitons in the family Mopaliidae. It is distributed in the Atlantic, Indian, and Pacific Oceans, primarily in the south-temperate and subantarctic regions.

Species

There are 22 species:

Extinct species

In 2024, Sirenko and Dell'Angelo described the first extinct species of the genus, Plaxiphorma luzanovskae, discovered through fossils from the Paleocene of Ukraine.

References

  1. ↑ Gray, John Edward (1847). "On the genera of the family Chitonidae". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 15: 63–70.
  2. 1 2 3 Bieler R, Bouchet P, Gofas S, Marshall B, Rosenberg G, La Perna R, Neubauer TA, Sartori AF, Schneider S, Vos C, ter Poorten JJ, Taylor J, Dijkstra H, Finn J, Bank R, Neubert E, Moretzsohn F, Faber M, Houart R, Picton B, Garcia-Alvarez O, eds. (2023). "Plaxiphora Gray, 1847". MolluscaBase. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 13 October 2023.
  3. 1 2 "Plaxiphora Gray, 1847". Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved 13 October 2023.
  4. 1 2 Murdoch, R. C. (1982). "A new species of Plaxiphora (Mollusca: Polyplacophora) from southern New Zealand". New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research. 16 (2): 175–178. Bibcode:1982NZJMF..16..175M. doi:10.1080/00288330.1982.9515960.
  5. ↑ Sernko, B. I.; Dell'Angelo, B. (2024). "First species of the genus Plaxiphora Gray, 1847 (Mollusca: Polyplacophora) from the Paleocene of Europe". Proceedings of the Zoological Institute RAS. 328 (3): 379–383. doi:10.31610/trudyzin/2024.328.3.379.

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