Acanthochitona Gray 1821

Dell’Angelo, Bruno, Landau, Bernard M., Sosso, Maurizio & Taviani, Marco, 2020, Late Pleistocene Red Sea Mollusca: 1. Polyplacophora, Zootaxa 4772 (3), pp. 401-449 : 430

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4772.3.1
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scientific name	Acanthochitona Gray 1821
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Genus Acanthochitona Gray 1821 View in CoL

Type species. Chiton fascicularis Linnaeus, 1767 , by monotypy.

Distribution. Almost worldwide except polar waters. The fossil record extends back to the Miocene of the Mediterranean Basin ( Dell’Angelo et al. 2016, 2018a, b), Paratethys ( Šulc 1934; Bałuk 1984), West Pacific Islands ( Ladd 1966), and Australia ( Cotton 1964).

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Taxonomy

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Mollusca
Class	Polyplacophora
SubClass	Loricata
Order	Chitonida
SubOrder	Acanthochitonina
Family	Acanthochitonidae

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