Biology:Plaxiphora
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Plaxiphora is a genus of chitons in the family Mopaliidae.[1][2] It is distributed in the Atlantic, Indian, and Pacific Oceans,[2] primarily in the south-temperate and subantarctic regions.[3]
Species
There are 22 species:[1]
- Plaxiphora albida (Blainville, 1825)
- Plaxiphora aurata (Spalowsky, 1795)
- Plaxiphora australis (Suter, 1907)
- Plaxiphora biramosa (Quoy & Gaimard, 1835)
- Plaxiphora boydeni R. C. Murdoch, 1982[3]
- 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
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.[4]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Plaxiphora Gray, 1847". MolluscaBase. World Register of Marine Species. 2023. http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=385603.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Plaxiphora Gray, 1847". Species. GBIF. http://www.gbif.org/species/2306030.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 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. Bibcode: 1982NZJMF..16..175M.
- ↑ 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. https://www.zin.ru/Journals/trudyzin/eng/publication.html?id=565.
<ref> tag with name "Gray 1847" defined in <references> is not used in prior text.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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