Cryptoconchus
| Cryptoconchus Temporal range: | |
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| The butterfly chiton, Cryptoconchus porosus. | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Polyplacophora |
| Order: | Chitonida |
| Family: | Acanthochitonidae |
| Genus: | Cryptoconchus Blainville in Burrow, 1815 |
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Cryptoconchus is a genus of chitons in the family Acanthochitonidae.
Species
[edit]- Cryptoconchus porosus - the butterfly chiton
- Cryptoconchus floridanus - the white-barred chiton
Extinct species
[edit]The genus is also represented in the fossil record, in Pliocene and Pleistocene rocks.[1]
References
[edit]- 1 2 van Belle, R. A. (1981). Catalogue of Fossil Chitons. ISBN 90 6279 018 6.
- "Cryptoconchus". Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
- Powell A W B, New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1
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