Notoplax

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Notoplax
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Subkingdom: Metazoa
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Polyplacophora
Order: Chitonida
Suborder: Acanthochitonina
Superfamily: Cryptoplacoidea
Family: Acanthochitonidae
Subfamily: Acanthochitoninae
Genus: Notoplax
H. Adams, 1862
Species

See text.

Notoplax is a genus of chitons in the family Acanthochitonidae, endemic to New Zealand, South Africa, and Australia including Lord Howe Island.

These chitons are small to medium sized, with a wide fleshy girdle, the tegmentum of the shell small, the sutural laminae wide, and the insertion plates moderately broad. The head valve has five slits, the median valves have one slit on each side, and the tail valve is multi-slit. The sculpture is usually granulose, except for Notoplax cuneata which is almost smooth. The girdle varies from almost smooth, to completely spiculose, with larger tufts at the sutural pores.

[edit] Species

  • Notoplax addenda Iredale & Hull, 1925
  • Notoplax aenigma (Iredale & Hull, 1925)
  • Notoplax aqabaensis
  • Notoplax arabica Kaas & Van Belle, 1988
  • Notoplax aupouria Powell, 1937
  • Notoplax bergenhayni Kaas & Van Belle, 1998
  • Notoplax conica Is. & Iw. Taki, 1929
  • Notoplax costata (H. Adams & Angas, 1864)
  • Notoplax crocodila (Torr & Ashby, 1898)
  • Notoplax cuneata (Suter, 1908)
  • Notoplax curiosa (Iredale & Hull, 1925)
  • Notoplax curvisetosa (Leloup, 1960)
  • Notoplax dalli Is. & Iw. Taki, 1929
  • Notoplax doederleini Thiele, 1909
  • Notoplax facilis Iredale and Hull, 1931
  • Notoplax gabrieli (Ashby, 1922)
  • Notoplax glauerti (Ashby, 1923)
  • Notoplax hemphilli (Pilsbry, 1893)
  • Notoplax hilgendorfi Thiele, 1909
  • Notoplax hilgendorfi Thiele, 1909
  • Notoplax jaubertensis (Ashby, 1924)
  • Notoplax lancemilnei Gowlett-Holmes, 1988
  • Notoplax latalamina Dell, 1956
  • Notoplax leuconota (Hedley & Hull, 1912)
  • Notoplax macandrewi Iredale & Hull, 1925
  • Notoplax mariae (Webster, 1908)
  • Notoplax mayi (Ashby, 1922)
  • Notoplax productus (phil)
  • Notoplax richardi Kaas, 1990
  • Notoplax richeri Kaas, 1990
  • Notoplax rosea (Leloup, 1940)
  • Notoplax rostellata Kaas, 1990
  • Notoplax rubrostrata (Torr, 1912)
  • Notoplax speciosa (H. Adams, 1861)
  • Notoplax sphenorhyncha (Iredale & Hull, 1925)
  • Notoplax squamopleura Bergenhayn, 1933
  • Notoplax subviridis (Torr, 1911)
  • Notoplax tateyamaensis (Wu & Okutani, 1995)
  • Notoplax tateyamaensis Taki, 1962
  • Notoplax tridacna (Rochebrune, 1881)
  • Notoplax violacea (Quoy and Gaimard, 1835)
  • Notoplax websteri Powell, 1937
  • Notoplax wilsoni Sykes, 1896

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