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Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Spiralia
Cladus: Lophotrochozoa
Phylum: Mollusca
Classis: Polyplacophora
Ordo: Ischnochitonina
Familia: Callistoplacidae
Genus: Callistochiton
Species: C. acinatus – C. adenensis – C. aepynotus – C. antiquus – C. asthenes – C. augustendis – C. barnardi – C. belliatus – C. biakensis – C. broomensis – C. carpenterianus – C. celetus – C. clenchi – C. colimensis – C. connellyi – C. crassicostatus – C. crosslandi – C. decoratus – C. diegoensis – C. elenensis – C. expressus – C. fischeri – C. gabbi – C. generos – C. granifer – C. indicus – C. infortunatus – C. jacobaeus – C. laticostatus – C. leei – C. mawlei – C. meridionalis – C. occiduus – C. omanensis – C. pachylasmae – C. palmulatus – C. philippinarum – C. pororus – C. portobelensis – C. pulchellus – C. pulchrior – C. retusa – C. righii – C. rotondus – C. shuttleworthianus – C. squamigercostatus
Name

Callistochiton Carpenter in Dall, 1879

Type species: Callistochiton palmulatus Carpenter in Dall, 1879
References

Dall, W.H. 1879. Report on the limpets and chitons of the Alaskan and Arctic regions, with descriptions of genera and subspecies believed to be new. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 1: 297.
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. 123.

Callistochiton is a genus of polyplacophoran molluscs, alive today, of which fossils are known from the Pliocene period onwards.[1]
References

van Belle, R. A. (1981). Catalogue of Fossil Chitons. ISBN 90 6279 018 6.
MolluscaBase (2019). MolluscaBase. Callistochiton Dall, 1879. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=138084 on 2019-03-06

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