Plaxiphora
Genus of molluscs
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Plaxiphora is a genus of chitons in the family Mopaliidae.[2][3] It is distributed in the Atlantic, Indian, and Pacific Oceans,[3] primarily in the south-temperate and subantarctic regions.[4]
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| Dorsal surface of Plaxiphora albida from Tasmania on display at the Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Milano. | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Polyplacophora |
| Order: | Chitonida |
| Family: | Mopaliidae |
| Subfamily: | Mopaliinae |
| Genus: | Plaxiphora Gray, 1847[1] |
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22 species (see text) | |
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Species
There are 22 species:[2]
- Plaxiphora albida (Blainville, 1825)
- Plaxiphora aurata (Spalowsky, 1795)
- Plaxiphora australis (Suter, 1907)
- Plaxiphora biramosa (Quoy & Gaimard, 1835)
- Plaxiphora boydeni R. C. Murdoch, 1982[4]
- Plaxiphora bucklandnicksi Sirenko, 2012
- Plaxiphora caelata (Reeve, 1847)
- Plaxiphora egregia (H. Adams, 1867)
- Plaxiphora fernandezi Thiele, 1909
- Plaxiphora gwenae A. J. Ferreira, 1987
- Plaxiphora indica Thiele, 1909
- Plaxiphora integra (Is. Taki, 1954)
- Plaxiphora javanica Kaas & Van Belle, 1994
- Plaxiphora kamehamehae A. J. Ferreira & Bertsch, 1979
- Plaxiphora matthewsi Iredale, 1910
- Plaxiphora mercatoris Leloup, 1936
- Plaxiphora murdochi Suter, 1905
- Plaxiphora obscurella (Souverbie, 1866)
- Plaxiphora obtecta Carpenter, 1893
- Plaxiphora parva Nierstrasz, 1906
- Plaxiphora tricolor Thiele, 1909
- Plaxiphora tulearensis Leloup, 1981
Extinct species
In 2024, Sirenko and Dell'Angelo described the first extinct species of the genus, Plaxiphorma luzanovskae, discovered through fossils from the Paleocene of Ukraine.[5]
