| Callochiton Temporal range: | |
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| Callochiton crocinus | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Polyplacophora |
| Order: | Chitonida |
| Suborder: | Chitonina |
| Family: | Ischnochitonidae |
| Subfamily: | Callochitoninae |
| Genus: | Callochiton Gray, 1847 |
| Type species | |
| Chiton laevisPennant, 1777 sensu Montagu, 1803 | |
| Species | |
See text. | |
| Synonyms | |
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Callochiton is a genus of chitons in the family Callochitonidae. [2]
Chitons are marine molluscs of varying size in the class Polyplacophora, formerly known as Amphineura. About 940 extant and 430 fossil species are recognized.
Calliostomatidae is a family of sea snails within the superfamily Trochoidea and the clade Vetigastropoda.
Viviparidae, sometimes known as the river snails or mystery snails, are a family of large operculate freshwater snails, aquatic gastropod mollusks.
Triviidae is a taxonomic family of small sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the superfamily Cypraeoidea of the order Littorinimorpha.
Chiton is a genus of chitons, a polyplacophoran mollusk in the family Chitonidae.
Lepidopleurus is an extant genus of chitons in the family Leptochitonidae.
Ischnochiton is a genus of polyplacophoran mollusc.
Callochiton crocinus is a species of chiton or "sea cradle" in the family Callochitonidae. It occurs on the shores of the Australia-New Zealand region. Locally, it is known as "smooth chiton", but that name is elsewhere applied to other species.
Onithochiton is a genus of chitons in the subfamily Toniciinae of the family Chitonidae, which is distributed from Australia and New Zealand to South Africa.
Notoplax is a genus of chitons in the family Acanthochitonidae.
Chitonidae is a family of chitons or polyplacophorans, marine mollusks whose shell is composed of eight articulating plates or valves. There are fifteen extant genera in three subfamilies.
Micrelenchus sanguineus is a species of small sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Trochidae, the top shells.
Trochus maculatus, common name the maculated top shell, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Trochidae, the top snails.
Ischnochitonidae is a family of polyplacophoran mollusc belonging to the superfamily Chitonoidea.
Mopaliidae is a family of marine molluscs in the class Polyplacophora.
Leptochiton is a genus of polyplacophoran molluscs.
Lirachiton is an extinct genus of polyplacophoran molluscs. Lirachiton became extinct in the Pliocene period.
Minopa is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Trochidae, the top snails.
Austrocochlea rudis, common name the rough periwinkle or the roughened austrocochlea, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Trochidae, the top snails.
Mucrosquama is a genus of chitons, a polyplacophoran mollusc in the family Chitonidae, first described in 1926 by Tom Iredale and Arthur Francis Basset Hull. The type species is Mucrosquama carnosus first described as Chiton carnosus by Angas in 1867.