:Plaxiphora
{{Short description|Genus of molluscs}}
{{Automatic taxobox
| image = Mopaliidae - Plaxifora albida.jpg
| image_caption = Plaxiphora albida from Tasmania on display at the Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Milano. Dorsal surface
| taxon = Plaxiphora
| authority = Gray, 1847
| subdivision_ranks = Species
| subdivision = 22 species (see text)
| synonyms = *Aerilamma
}}
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
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- 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
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References
Further reading
- [http://www.discoverlife.org/mp/20o?search=Plaxiphora+costata&guide=Mollusca_Polyplacophora_species&burl=/&flags=HAS: Discover Life]
- Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 {{ISBN|0-00-216906-1}}
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Category:Taxa described in 1847
Category:Taxa named by John Edward Gray
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