Callochiton

Summary

Callochiton is a genus of chitons in the family Callochitonidae.[2]

Callochiton
Temporal range: Oligocene–Recent[1]
Callochiton crocinus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Polyplacophora
Order: Chitonida
Suborder: Chitonina
Family: Ischnochitonidae
Subfamily: Callochitoninae
Genus: Callochiton
Gray, 1847
Type species
Chiton laevis Pennant, 1777 sensu Montagu, 1803
Species

See text.

Synonyms
  • Acutoplax Cotton & Weeding, 1939 ·
  • Callochiton (Callochiton) Gray, 1847 · alternate representation
  • Callochiton (Icoplax) Thiele, 1893
  • Callochiton (Ocellochiton) Ashby, 1939
  • Callochiton (Stereochiton) Carpenter [in Dall], 1882
  • Callochiton (Trachyradsia) Carpenter, 1878
  • Chiton (Callochiton) Gray, 1847
  • Icoplax Thiele, 1893
  • Ischnochiton (Trachyradsia) Carpenter, 1878
  • Ocellochiton Ashby, 1939
  • Paricoplax Iredale & Hull, 1929 ·
  • Stereochiton Carpenter in Dall, 1882

Species edit

References edit

  1. ^ van Belle, R. A. (1981). Catalogue of Fossil Chitons. ISBN 90 6279 018 6.
  2. ^ MolluscaBase eds. (2022). MolluscaBase. Callochiton Gray, 1847. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=138085 on 2022-06-22
  • "Callochiton". Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
  • Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1
  • Iredale, T. & Hull, A. F. B. (1929). The loricates of the neozelanic region. Australian Zoologist 6: 75–95.
  • Vaught, K.C.; Tucker Abbott, R.; Boss, K.J. (1989). A classification of the living Mollusca. American Malacologists: Melbourne. ISBN 0-915826-22-4. XII, 195 pp
  • Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). Checklist of marine biota of China seas. China Science Press. 1267 pp.

External links edit

  • Gray, J. E. (1847). Additional observations on Chitones. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. (1847) 15 (178): 126-127
  • Cotton, B. C. & Weeding, B. J. (1939). Flindersian Loricates. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia. 63(2): 180-199
  • Ashby, E. & Cotton, B. C. (1939). New fossil chitons from the Miocene and Pliocene of Victoria. Records of the South Australian Museum. 6(3): 209–242, pls. 19–21