Guildingia

Guildingia

Taxobox
name = "Guildingia"
status =


image_width =
regnum = Animalia
subregnum = Metazoa
branch = Bilateria
phylum = Mollusca
classis = Polyplacophora
ordo = Neoloricata
subordo = Ischnochitonina
familia = Mopaliidae
genus = "Guildingia"
genus_authority = Pilsbry, 1893
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision = See text.

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

They are large, with smooth valves, and a wide girdle thickly beset with long hair-like processes. There are eight slits in the head valve, one on each side in the median valves, and none in the posterior valve.

They are endemic to New Zealand.

pecies

* "Guildingia obtecta" (Pilsbry, 1893)
* "Guildingia tutamoensis"

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References

* [http://rsnz.natlib.govt.nz/volume/rsnz_59/rsnz_59_01_002280.html Royal Society of New Zealand]
* Powell A. W. B., "New Zealand Mollusca", William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1


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