Plaxiphora | |
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Plaxiphora albida from Tasmania on display at the Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Milano. Dorsal surface | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Polyplacophora |
Order: | Chitonida |
Family: | Mopaliidae |
Subfamily: | Mopaliinae |
Genus: | Plaxiphora Gray, 1847[1] |
Species | |
22 species (see text) | |
Synonyms | |
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Plaxiphora is a genus of chitons in the family Mopaliidae.[2][3] It is distributed in the Atlantic, Indian, and Pacific Oceans,[3] primarily in the south-temperate and subantarctic regions.[4]
There are 22 species:[2]