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Callochitonidae Plate, 1901 
AphiaID: 385492

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Polyplacophora (Class) > Neoloricata (Subclass) > Chitonida (Order) > Chitonina (Suborder) > Chitonoidea (Superfamily)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Family
Parent Chitonoidea
Synonymised
taxa
  Callochitoninae Plate, 1901 (original combination)
Source  from synonym: Vaught, K.C. (1989). A classification of the living Mollusca. American Malacologists: Melbourne, FL (USA). ISBN 0-915826-22-4. XII, 195 pp. (look up in IMIS[details] [view taxon]

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 Genus Callochiton Gray, 1847
Genus Eudoxochiton Shuttleworth, 1853
Genus Leloupia Kaas & Van Belle, 1990
Genus Quaestiplax Iredale & Hull, 1929
Genus Vermichiton Kaas, 1991

Subfamily Callochitoninae Plate, 1901 accepted as Callochitonidae Plate, 1901
  » Genus Stereochiton Carpenter in Dall, 1882 accepted as Callochiton Gray, 1847
Genus Eudoxoplax Iredale & May, 1916 accepted as Eudoxochiton (Eudoxoplax) Iredale & May, 1916
Environment marine
Links To GenBank
To image gallery of Natural History Museum Rotterdam
Note  Classification: Suggested as sister-group to the Lepidopleurida by Okusu et al. (2003) but this needs more support before being integrated in the classification). [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:385492
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2009-03-19 13:29:13Z  created  Schwabe, Enrico
  
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  Citation: Schwabe, E. (2013). Callochitonidae. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=385492 on 2013-05-24
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