Cryptoconchus

Cryptoconchus is a genus of chitons in the family Acanthochitonidae.

Cryptoconchus
Temporal range: Pliocene–Recent[1]
The butterfly chiton, Cryptoconchus porosus.
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Polyplacophora
Order: Chitonida
Family: Acanthochitonidae
Genus: Cryptoconchus
Blainville in Burrow, 1815
Species
  • C. floridanus (Dall, 1889)
  • C. porosus (Burrow, 1815)

Species

Extinct species

The genus is also represented in the fossil record, in Pliocene and Pleistocene rocks.[1]

gollark: They also purchased a bad phone, evidently.
gollark: Unfortunately, LyricLy™ says bad things.
gollark: They sent you a GTech™ hyperserver™ with a few yottaexabytes of RAM.
gollark: StackOverflow is bigger, so I only have Wikipedia.
gollark: We have archived copies of MANY webpages, and also YouTube videos and such.

References

  1. van Belle, R. A. (1981). Catalogue of Fossil Chitons. ISBN 90 6279 018 6.


This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.