Plaxiphora Gray, 1847

Sirenko, Boris I. & Zhang, Junlong, 2019, Chitons (Mollusca: Polyplacophora) of Hainan Island and vicinity, South China Sea, Zootaxa 4564 (1), pp. 1-40 : 25

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scientific name	Plaxiphora Gray, 1847
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Genus Plaxiphora Gray, 1847 View in CoL

Type species. Chiton carmichaelis Gray, 1828 (= Chiton auratus Spalowsky, 1795 ), SD Gray (1847). Genus distribution and range. The genus is widespread in the South Atlantic as well as in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. Eocene–Recent

References

Gray, J. E. (1828) Spicilegia Zoologica; or original figures and short systematic descriptions of new and unfigured animals. Family Chitonidae, London, 1, 5 - 6. pls. 3, 6.

Gray, J. E. (1847) A list of the genera of recent Mollusca, their synonymy and types. Proceedings of the Zoological Society London, 15, 129 - 206.

Spalowsky, J. (1795) Prodromus in Systema historicum Testaceorum: 88 pp.

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Taxonomy

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Mollusca
Class	Polyplacophora
SubClass	Neoloricata
Order	Chitonida
SubOrder	Acanthochitonina
Family	Mopaliidae

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