Plaxiphora

Taxobox
name = "Plaxiphora"
status =


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regnum = Animalia
subregnum = Metazoa
branch = Bilateria
phylum = Mollusca
classis = Polyplacophora
ordo = Neoloricata
subordo = Ischnochitonina
familia = Mopaliidae
genus = "Plaxiphora"
genus_authority = Gray, 1847
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision = See text.

"Plaxiphora" is a genus of chitons in the family Mopaliidae.

They are small to large, all with a leathery girdle, more or less bristly, but never with scales. The head valve has eight slits, and the tail valve none or occasionally with a single slit on each side. They are found around circum-subantarctic islands.

pecies

* "Plaxiphora albida"
* "Plaxiphora atlantica"
* "Plaxiphora aurata campbelli" Filhol, 1880
* "Plaxiphora aurata"
* "Plaxiphora aurata" (Spalowsky 1795)
* "Plaxiphora aurea"
* "Plaxiphora australis" Suter,1907
* "Plaxiphora bednalli"
* "Plaxiphora boydeni"
* "Plaxiphora brevispinosa"
* "Plaxiphora caelata" (Reeve, 1847)
* "Plaxiphora costata" (Blainville)
* "Plaxiphora dardennei"
* "Plaxiphora fernandezi"
* "Plaxiphora frigida"
* "Plaxiphora glauca"
* "Plaxiphora hiramosa"
* "Plaxiphora kamehamehae"
* "Plaxiphora marquesana"
* "Plaxiphora matthewsi"
* "Plaxiphora mercatoris" Leloup, 1936
* "Plaxiphora mixta"
* "Plaxiphora murdochi" Suter,1905
* "Plaxiphora obscurella"
* "Plaxiphora obtecta" Carpenter in Pilsbry, 1893
* "Plaxiphora paeteliana"
* "Plaxiphora petholata"
* "Plaxiphora petholatus"
* "Plaxiphora reoplendens"
* "Plaxiphora schauinslandi"
* "Plaxiphora setiger"
* "Plaxiphora setigera"
* "Plaxiphora tricolor"
* "Plaxiphora tulearensis"

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References

* [http://www.rsnz.org/publish/nzjmfr/1982/19.php Royal Society of New Zealand]
* [http://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/ObjectDetails.aspx?oid=145082&coltype=Molluscs&regno=M.000049 Te Papa]
* [http://home.inreach.com/burghart/obtecta.html Inreach]
* [http://www.discoverlife.org/mp/20o?search=Plaxiphora+costata&guide=Mollusca_Polyplacophora_species&burl=/&flags=HAS: Discover Life]
* [http://zipcodezoo.com/Animals/P/Plaxiphora_aurata_campbelli.asp ZipCodeZoo]
* Powell A. W. B., "New Zealand Mollusca", William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1