Plaxiphora

Plaxiphora is a genus of chitons in the family Mopaliidae. It is distributed in the Atlantic, Indian, and Pacific Oceans, primarily in the south-temperate and subantarctic regions.

Species

There are 22 species:

• Plaxiphora albida (Blainville, 1825)
• Plaxiphora aurata (Spalowsky, 1795)
• Plaxiphora australis (Suter, 1907)
• Plaxiphora biramosa (Quoy & Gaimard, 1835)
• Plaxiphora boydeni R. C. Murdoch, 1982
• 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.

Further reading

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