Chitonidae
Chitonidae is a family of chitons or polyplacophorans, marine mollusks whose shell is composed of eight articulating plates or valves. There are fifteen extant genera in three subfamilies.
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Chiton magnificus | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Polyplacophora |
Order: | Chitonida |
Suborder: | Chitonina |
Family: | Chitonidae Rafinesque, 1815 |
Genera | |
16, 15 extant, see text. |
Subfamilies and genera
Subfamilies and genera within the family Chitonidae include:
- Subfamily Chitoninae Rafinesque, 1815
- Chiton Linnaeus, 1758 – the type genus of the family
- Amaurochiton Thiele, 1893
- Radsia Gray, 1847
- Sypharochiton Thiele, 1893
- Nodiplax Beu, 1967
- Rhyssoplax Thiele, 1893
- Teguloaplax Iredale & Hull, 1926
- Mucrosquama Iredale, 1893
- Subfamily Toniciinae Pilsbry, 1893
- Tonicia Gray, 1847
- Onithochiton Gray, 1847
- Subfamily Acanthopleurinae Dall, 1889
- Acanthopleura Guilding, 1829
- Liolophura Pilsbry, 1893
- Enoplochiton Gray, 1847
- Squamopleura Nierstrasz, 1905
- Subfamily Chitoninae Rafinesque, 1815
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References
- van Belle, R. A. (1981). Catalogue of Fossil Chitons. ISBN 90 6279 018 6.
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