Biology:Plaxiphora
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Short description: Genus of molluscs
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| Plaxiphora albida from Tasmania on display at the Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Milano. Dorsal surface | |
Scientific classification 
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| Script error: No such module "Taxobox ranks".: | Animalia |
| Script error: No such module "Taxobox ranks".: | Mollusca |
| Script error: No such module "Taxobox ranks".: | Polyplacophora |
| Script error: No such module "Taxobox ranks".: | Chitonida |
| Script error: No such module "Taxobox ranks".: | Mopaliidae |
| Script error: No such module "Taxobox ranks".: | Mopaliinae |
| Script error: No such module "Taxobox ranks".: | Plaxiphora Gray, 1847[1] |
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22 species (see text) | |
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Plaxiphora is a genus of chitons in the family Mopaliidae.[2][3] It is distributed in the Atlantic, Indian, and Pacific Oceans,[3] primarily in the south-temperate and subantarctic regions.[4]
Species
There are 22 species:[2]
- Plaxiphora albida (Blainville, 1825)
- Plaxiphora aurata (Spalowsky, 1795)
- Plaxiphora australis (Suter, 1907)
- Plaxiphora biramosa (Quoy & Gaimard, 1835)
- Plaxiphora boydeni R. C. Murdoch, 1982[4]
- Plaxiphora bucklandnicksi Sirenko, 2012
- Plaxiphora caelata (Reeve, 1847)
- Plaxiphora egregia (H. Adams, 1867)
- Plaxiphora fernandezi Thiele, 1909
- Plaxiphora gwenae A. J. Ferreira, 1987
- Plaxiphora indica Thiele, 1909
- Plaxiphora integra (Is. Taki, 1954)
- Plaxiphora javanica Kaas & Van Belle, 1994
- Plaxiphora kamehamehae A. J. Ferreira & Bertsch, 1979
- Plaxiphora matthewsi Iredale, 1910
- Plaxiphora mercatoris Leloup, 1936
- Plaxiphora murdochi Suter, 1905
- Plaxiphora obscurella (Souverbie, 1866)
- Plaxiphora obtecta Carpenter, 1893
- Plaxiphora parva Nierstrasz, 1906
- Plaxiphora tricolor Thiele, 1909
- Plaxiphora tulearensis Leloup, 1981
References
- ↑ Gray, John Edward (1847). "On the genera of the family Chitonidae". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 15: 63–70. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/part/244290.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Plaxiphora Gray, 1847". MolluscaBase. World Register of Marine Species. 2023. http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=385603.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Plaxiphora Gray, 1847". Species. GBIF. http://www.gbif.org/species/2306030.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 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. doi:10.1080/00288330.1982.9515960.
Further reading
- Discover Life
- Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1
Wikidata ☰ Q3073558 entry
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