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Plaxiphora (Plaxiphora)

Cladus: Eukaryota
Supergroup: Opisthokonta
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Spiralia
Cladus: Lophotrochozoa
Phylum: Mollusca
Classis: Polyplacophora
Ordo: Ischnochitonina
Familia: Mopaliidae
Subfamilia: Mopaliinae
Genus: Plaxiphora
Subgenus: P. (Plaxiphora)
Species: P. (P.) albida - P. (P.) aurata - P. (P.) australis - P. (P.) biramosa - P. (P.) boydeni - P. (P.) caelata - P. (P.) fernandezi - P. (P.) gwenae - P. (P.) indica - P. (P.) integra - P. (P.) javanica - P. (P.) kamehamehae - P. (P.) murdochi - P. (P.) obscurella - P. (P.) obtecta - P. (P.) parva - P. (P.) tricolor - P. (P.) tulearensis

Name

Plaxiphora Gray 1847

Type species: Chiton carmichaelis Gray, 1828, = Chiton auratus Spalowsky, 1795

References

* Gray, J.E. 1847. On the genera of Chitonidae. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 15: 65.
* Kaas, P., & R.A. Van Belle. 1994. Monograph of Living Chitons (Mollusca: Polyplacophora). Volume 5. Suborder Ischnochitonina: Ischnochitonidae: Ischnochitoninae (concluded), Callistoplacinae; Mopaliidae. Additions to Volumes 1-4. E.J. Brill, Leiden. P. 265.

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