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Plaxiphora (Mercatora)

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: Mopaliinae
Genus: Plaxiphora
Subgenus: P. (Mercatora)
Species: P. (M.) mercatoris

Name

Mercatora Leloup, 1942

Type species: Plaxiphora (Poneroplax) mercatoris Leloup, 1936

References

* Leloup, E. 1942. Contributions à la connaissance des polyplacophores. 1, Familie Mopaliidae Pilsbry, 1892. Mémoires du Musee Royal d'Histoire Naturelle de Belgique 2 (25): 43.
* 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. 315.

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