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Chitonida
Sign in to saveChitonida is an order of chitons. The order was erected to class chitons with elaborate hull outgrowths on their eggs.
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 38
- With media
- 4
- Collections
- PRI, USNM, SIO
- Recorded in
- United States, Italy, Papua New Guinea, Antarctica, New Zealand
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Chitonida is an order of chitons. The order was erected to class chitons with elaborate hull outgrowths on their eggs.
== Taxonomy == Acanthochitonidae Pilsbry, 1893 Callistoplacidae Pilsbry, 1893 Callochitonidae Plate, 1901 Chaetopleuridae Plate, 1899 Chitonidae Rafinesque, 1815 Choriplacidae Ashby, 1928 Cryptoplacidae Adams & Adams, 1858 Hemiarthridae Sirenko, 1997 Ischnochitonidae Dall, 1889 Mopaliidae Dall, 1889 †Ochmazochitonidae Hoare et Smith, 1984 Schizochitonidae Dall, 1889 Schizoplacidae Bergenhayn, 1955 Tonicellidae Simroth, 1894
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