Acanthochitona

Taxobox
name = "Acanthochitona"
status =


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regnum = Animalia
subregnum = Metazoa
branch = Bilateria
phylum = Mollusca
classis = Polyplacophora
ordo = Chitonida
subordo = Acanthochitonina
superfamilia = Cryptoplacoidea
familia = Acanthochitonidae
subfamilia = Acanthochitoninae
genus = "Acanthochitona"
genus_authority = Gray, 1921
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision = See text.

"Acanthochitona" is a genus of chitons in the family Acanthochitonidae, of world-wide distribution.

These chitons are small, narrow, and elongated, with the valves not encroached upon by the girdle. The head valve has five slits, with the median valves and tail valve each with one slit on each side. The girdle is densely spiculose and with tufts of large stiff bristles at the sutural pores.

pecies

* "Acanthochitona angelica" W. H. Dall, 1919
* "Acanthochitona avicula" (Carpenter, 1864)
* "Acanthochitona balesae" Abbott, 1954 - slender glass-hair chiton
* "Acanthochitona communis"
* "Acanthochitona crinita" (Pennant, 1777)
* "Acanthochitona discrepans" (Brown, 1827)
* "Acanthochitona fascicularis" (Linnaeus, 1767)
* "Acanthochitona hemphilli" (Pilsbry, 1893) - red glass-hair chiton
* "Acanthochitona imperatrix" Watters, 1981
* "Acanthochitona pygmaea" (Pilsbry, 1893) - striate glass-hair chiton
* "Acanthochitona roseojugum" Lyons, 1988
* "Acanthochitona spiculosa" Reeve, 1847
* "Acanthochitona thileniusi" Lyons, 1988
* "Acanthochitona zebra" Lyons, 1988
* "Acanthochitona zelandica" (Quoy and Gaimard, 1835)

References

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