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Most species inhabit intertidal or subtidal zones, and do not extend beyond the photic zone, but a few species live in deep water, as deep as 6,000 m (20,000 ft). [ 9 ] Chitons are exclusively and fully marine, in contrast to the bivalves , which were able to adapt to brackish water and fresh water, and the gastropods which were able to make ...
Subfamilies and genera within the family Chitonidae include: Subfamily Chitoninae Rafinesque, 1815. Chiton Linnaeus, 1758 – the type genus of the family; Amaurochiton Thiele, 1893
Species See text. Synonyms; Amaurochiton Thiele, 1893; Chiton (Chiton) Linnaeus, 1758 · alternate representation Chiton (Lophyrus) Poli, 1791 Chiton (Sclerochiton) Dall, 1882 (invalid: junior homonym of Sclerochiton Kraatz, 1859 (Coleoptera))
List of mollusc orders illustrates the 97 orders in the phylum Mollusca, the largest marine animal phylum. 85,000 extant species are described, [1] making up 23% of described marine organisms. [ 2 ] Class Aplacophora
Mopalia muscosa, the mossy chiton, is a species of chiton, a polyplacophoran, an eight-plated marine mollusk. It is a northeastern Pacific species which occurs from British Columbia, Canada, to Baja California Mexico. [1] [2] [3] This species is found in the middle and lower intertidal zone on exposed rocky shores.
The Solenogastres (less often referred to as Neomeniomorpha), common name the solenogasters, are one class of small, worm-like, shell-less molluscs (Aplacophora), the other class being the Caudofoveata (Chaetodermomorpha).
Mopaliidae is a family of marine molluscs in the class Polyplacophora. [1] [2] Genera. There are 10 recognized genera: [2] Amicula Gray, 1847; Dendrochiton Berry, 1911;
Lepidopleurida is an order of molluscs belonging to the class Polyplacophora. [1] The order Lepidopleurida is the oldest group of polyplacophoran molluscs [2] Families: [1] Abyssochitonidae †Acutichitonidae; Afossochitonidae †Camptochitonidae †Cymatochitonidae †Glyptochitonidae †Gryphochitonidae; Hanleyidae †Heterochitonidae ...