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Mopaliidae

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: Katharininae - Mopaliinae

Name

Mopaliidae Dall, 1889

Type genus: Mopalia Gray, 1847

Refernces

* Dall, W.H. 1889. Reports on the results of dredging, under the supervision of Alenxander Agassiz, in the Gulf of Mexico (1877-78) and in the Caribbean Sea (1879-80) ... XXIX. Report on the Mollusca. Part 2, Gastropoda and Scaphopoda. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University 18: 416.
* 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. 211.

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