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Chiton is a genus

Genera

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Chiton

Chitons are small to large, primitive marine molluscs in the class Polyplacophora.There are 900 to 1,000 extant species of chitons in the class, which was formerly known as Amphineura....

, a polyplacophoran mollusk in the family

Family (biology)

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Chitonidae

Chitonidae is a family of chitons or polyplacophorans, marine mollusks whose shell is composed of eight articulating plates or valves. There are fifteen extant genera in three subfamilies.-Subfamilies and genera:...

Taxonomy

The genus Chiton has been split into several subgenera as follows:

Subgenus Chiton (Chiton) Linnaeus, 1758
- Chiton (Chiton) albolineatus Broderip & Sowerby, 1829
- Chiton (Chiton) aorangi Creese & O'Neill, 1987
- Chiton (Chiton) articulatus Sowerby in Broderip & Sowerby, 1832
- Chiton (Chiton) bowenii King & Broderip, 1831
- Chiton (Chiton) ceylanicus E. A. Smith, 1904
- Chiton (Chiton) connectens Thiele, 1909
- Chiton (Chiton) cumingsii Frembly, 1827
- Chiton (Chiton) glaucus Gray, 1828
- Chiton (Chiton) granoradiatus Leloup, 1937
- Chiton (Chiton) granosus Frembly, 1827
- Chiton (Chiton) groschi Kaas, 1979
- Chiton (Chiton) kaasi (Leloup, 1981)
- Chiton (Chiton) laterorugosus Kaas, 1986
- Chiton (Chiton) lyratus Sowerby, 1840
- Chiton (Chiton) magnificus (Deshayes
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- Chiton (Chiton) marmoratus Gmelin, 1791
- Chiton (Chiton) marquesanus Pilsbry, 1893
- Chiton (Chiton) pelliserpentis Quoy
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  , 1835
- Chiton (Chiton) squamosus Linnaeus, 1764
- Chiton (Chiton) stokesii Broderip in Broderip & Sowerby, 1832
- Chiton (Chiton) themeropis (Iredale, 1914)
- Chiton (Chiton) torri Suter, 1907
- Chiton (Chiton) tuberculatus Linnaeus, 1758
- Chiton (Chiton) virgulatus Sowerby, 1840
- Chiton (Chiton) viridis Spengler, 1797

Subgenus Chiton (Mucrosquama) (Iredale & Hull, 1926)
- Chiton (Mucrosquama) carnosus Carpenter in Angas, 1867
- Chiton (Mucrosquama) particolor (Hull, 1923)
- Chiton (Mucrosquama) verconis Torr & Ashby, 1898

Subgenus Chiton (Rhyssoplax) (Thiele, 1893)
- Chiton (Rhyssoplax) aereus Reeve, 1847
- Chiton (Rhyssoplax) affinis Issel, 1869
- Chiton (Rhyssoplax) baliensis (Bullock, 1989)
- Chiton (Rhyssoplax) barnardi Ashby, 1931
- Chiton (Rhyssoplax) bednalli Pilsbry, 1895
- Chiton (Rhyssoplax) burmanus Carpenter in Pilsbry, 1893
- Chiton (Rhyssoplax) calliozonus Pilsbry, 1894
- Chiton (Rhyssoplax) canaliculatus Quoy
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- Chiton (Rhyssoplax) canariensis d'Orbigny, 1839
- Chiton (Rhyssoplax) corallinus (Risso, 1826)
- Chiton (Rhyssoplax) corypheus Hedley & Hull, 1912
- Chiton (Rhyssoplax) coxi Pilsbry, 1894
- Chiton (Rhyssoplax) crawfordi Sykes, 1899
- Chiton (Rhyssoplax) densiliratus Carpenter in Pilsbry, 1893
- Chiton (Rhyssoplax) diaphorus (Iredale
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- Chiton (Rhyssoplax) discolor Souverbie in Souverbie & Montrouzier, 1866
- Chiton (Rhyssoplax) ectypus (de Rochebrune, 1884)
- Chiton (Rhyssoplax) exasperatus (Iredale
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- Chiton (Rhyssoplax) exoptandus Bednall, 1897
- Chiton (Rhyssoplax) fosteri Bullock, 1972
- Chiton (Rhyssoplax) funereus Hedley & Hull, 1912
- Chiton (Rhyssoplax) heterodon (Pilsbry, 1893)
- Chiton (Rhyssoplax) jugosus Gould, 1846
- Chiton (Rhyssoplax) kimberi Ashby, 1928
- Chiton (Rhyssoplax) komaianus Is. & Iw. Taki, 1929
- Chiton (Rhyssoplax) kurodai Is. & Iw. Taki, 1929
- Chiton (Rhyssoplax) linsleyi (Burghardt, 1973)
- Chiton (Rhyssoplax) maldivensis (E. A. Smith in Gardiner, 1903)
- Chiton (Rhyssoplax) mauritianus Quoy
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  , 1835
- Chiton (Rhyssoplax) olivaceus Spengler, 1797
- Chiton (Rhyssoplax) oruktus Maughan, 1900
- Chiton (Rhyssoplax) peregrinus Thiele, 1909
- Chiton (Rhyssoplax) perviridis Carpenter, 1865
- Chiton (Rhyssoplax) phaseolinus di Monterosato, 1879
- Chiton (Rhyssoplax) politus Spengler, 1797 syn Chiton tulipa
- Chiton (Rhyssoplax) pulcherrimus Sowerby, 1842
- Chiton (Rhyssoplax) pulvinatus Carpenter in Pilsbry, 1893
- Chiton (Rhyssoplax) rapaitiensis Schwabe & Lozouet, 2006
- Chiton (Rhyssoplax) rhynchotus (de Rochebrune, 1884)
- Chiton (Rhyssoplax) salihafui Bullock, 1972
- Chiton (Rhyssoplax) speciosus Nierstrasz, 1905
- Chiton (Rhyssoplax) stangeri Reeve, 1847
- Chiton (Rhyssoplax) subassimilis Souverbie in Souverbie & Montrouzier, 1866
- Chiton (Rhyssoplax) tectiformis (Is. Taki, 1938)
- Chiton (Rhyssoplax) torrianus Hedley & Hull, 1910
- Chiton (Rhyssoplax) translucens Hedley & Hull, 1909
- Chiton (Rhyssoplax) tricostalis Pilsbry
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- Chiton (Rhyssoplax) vauclusensis Hedley & Hull, 1909
- Chiton (Rhyssoplax) venustus (Hull, 1923)
- Chiton (Rhyssoplax) whitleyi (Iredale & Hull, 1932)

Subgenus Chiton (Tegulaplax) (Iredale & Hull, 1926)
- Chiton (Tegulaplax) boucheti Kaas, 1989
- Chiton (Tegulaplax) hululensis (Smith E.A. in Gardiner, 1903)
- Chiton (Tegulaplax) pulchrus (Kaas, 1991)

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