Maorichiton

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Maorichiton
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Subkingdom: Metazoa
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Polyplacophora
Order: Neoloricata
Suborder: Ischnochitonina
Family: Mopaliidae
Genus: Maorichiton
Iredale, 1914
Species

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Maorichiton is a genus of chitons in the family Mopaliidae.

They are small to moderate sized, narrow and depressed, with valves distinctly sculptured with radial ridges, crossed by chevroned wrinkles. The sutural lamellae are widely separated. The tail valve is triangular, the mucro forming the extreme posterior edge. The girdle is leathery, bearing bunches of corneous 'hairs' at the sutural pores.

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