Plaxiphora

Plaxiphora
Dorsal surface of Plaxiphora albida from Tasmania on display at the Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Milano.
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Polyplacophora
Order:	Chitonida
Family:	Mopaliidae
Subfamily:	Mopaliinae
Genus:	Plaxiphora Gray, 1847 [1]
Species
22 species (see text)
Synonyms
Aerilamma

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

Extinct species

In 2024, Sirenko and Dell'Angelo described the first extinct species of the genus, Plaxiphorma luzanovskae, discovered through fossils from the Paleocene of Ukraine. ^[5]

References

1. Gray, John Edward (1847). "On the genera of the family Chitonidae". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 15: 63–70.
2. 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.
3. "Plaxiphora Gray, 1847". Global Biodiversity Information Facility . Retrieved 13 October 2023.
4. 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. Bibcode:1982NZJMF..16..175M. doi: 10.1080/00288330.1982.9515960 .
5. Sernko, B. I.; Dell'Angelo, B. (2024). "First species of the genus Plaxiphora Gray, 1847 (Mollusca: Polyplacophora) from the Paleocene of Europe". Proceedings of the Zoological Institute RAS. 328 (3): 379–383. doi:10.31610/trudyzin/2024.328.3.379.

Further reading

• Discover Life
• Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN   0-00-216906-1