Plaxiphora

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: ParaHoxozoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Spiralia
Cladus: Lophotrochozoa
Phylum: Mollusca
Classis: Polyplacophora
Ordo: Ischnochitonina

Familia: Mopaliidae
Subfamilia: Mopaliinae
Genus: Plaxiphora
Subgenera: P. (Fremblya) - P. (Mercatora) - P. (Plaxiphora)
Name

Plaxiphora Gray 1847

Type Species: Chiton carmichaelis Gray, 1828, = Chiton auratus Spalowsky, 1795
References
Gray, J.E. 1847. On the genera of Chitonidae. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 15: 65.
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. 265

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]
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

References

Gray, John Edward (1847). "On the genera of the family Chitonidae". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 15: 63–70.
Bieler R, Bouchet P, Gofas S, Marshall B, Rosenberg G, La Perna R, Neubauer TA, Sartori AF, Schneider S, Vos C, ter Poorten JJ, Taylor J, Dijkstra H, Finn J, Bank R, Neubert E, Moretzsohn F, Faber M, Houart R, Picton B, Garcia-Alvarez O, eds. (2023). "Plaxiphora Gray, 1847". MolluscaBase. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 13 October 2023.
"Plaxiphora Gray, 1847". Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved 13 October 2023.

Murdoch, R. C. (1982). "A new species of Plaxiphora (Mollusca: Polyplacophora) from southern New Zealand". New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research. 16 (2): 175–178. doi:10.1080/00288330.1982.9515960.