Chaetopleura
| Chaetopleura Temporal range: Oligocene–Recent[1] | |
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| Chaetopleura papilio | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Polyplacophora |
| Subclass: | Neoloricata |
| Order: | Chitonida |
| Suborder: | Chitonina |
| Superfamily: | Chitonoidea |
| Family: | Chaetopleuridae |
| Genus: | Chaetopleura Shuttleworth, 1853[2] |
Chaetopleura is a genus of chitons in the family Chaetopleuridae.[3] The species within this genus are marine molluscs.
Taxonomy
The genus has been separated into two subgenera.[3]
subgenus Chaetopleura (Shuttleworth, 1853)
- Chaetopleura angolensis Thiele, 1909
- Chaetopleura angulata (Spengler, 1797)
- Chaetopleura apiculata (Say in Conrad, 1834)
- Chaetopleura asperior (Carpenter in Pilsbry, 1892)
- Chaetopleura asperrima (Couthoy MS, Gould, 1852)
- Chaetopleura benaventei Plate, 1899
- Chaetopleura benguelensis Kaas & Van Belle, 1987
- Chaetopleura biarmata de Rochebrune, 1882
- Chaetopleura brucei Iredale in Melvill & Standen, 1912
- Chaetopleura debruini (Strack, 1996)
- Chaetopleura fernandensis Plate, 1899
- Chaetopleura gambiensis (de Rochebrune, 1881)
- Chaetopleura hanselmani (Ferreira, 1982)
- Chaetopleura hennahi (Gray, 1828)
- Chaetopleura isabellei (d'Orbigny, 1841)
- Chaetopleura lurida (Sowerby in Broderip & Sowerby, 1832)
- Chaetopleura papilio (Spengler, 1797)
- Chaetopleura pertusa (Reeve, 1847)
- Chaetopleura peruvian (Lamarck, 1819)
- Chaetopleura pomarium Barnard, 1963
- Chaetopleura pustulata (Krauss, 1848)
- Chaetopleura roddai Ferreira, 1983
- Chaetopleura shyana Ferreira, 1983
- Chaetopleura sowerbyana (Reeve, 1847)
- Chaetopleura staphylophera Lyons, 1985
- Chaetopleura unilineata Leloup, 1954
subgenus Pallochiton (Dall, 1879)
- Chaetopleura gemma Carpenter MS, Dall, 1879
- Chaetopleura lanuginosa
References
- ↑ van Belle, R. A. (1981). Catalogue of Fossil Chitons. ISBN 90 6279 018 6.
- ↑ Shuttleworth (1853). Mitt. naturf. Ges. Bern 1853: 190.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Schwabe, E.; Gofas, S. (2010). Chaetopleura Shuttleworth, 1853. In: Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S.; Rosenberg, G. (2010) World Marine Mollusca database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=138086 on 2011-01-27
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