Cryptoconchus

Cryptoconchus
Temporal range: Pliocene–Recent[1]
The butterfly chiton, Cryptoconchus porosus.
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Mollusca
Class:Polyplacophora
Family:Acanthochitonidae
Genus:Cryptoconchus
Blainville in Burrow, 1815
Species
  • C. floridanus (Dall, 1889)
  • C. porosus (Burrow, 1815)

Cryptoconchus is a genus of chitons in the family Acanthochitonidae.

Species

Extinct species

The genus is also represented in the fossil record, in Pliocene and Pleistocene rocks.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 van Belle, R. A. (1981). Catalogue of Fossil Chitons. ISBN 90 6279 018 6.
  • "Cryptoconchus". Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
  • Powell A W B, New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1


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