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Maorichiton
''Maorichiton'' is a defunct genus of chitons in the family Mopaliidae. Species Species within this genus included: * '' Maorichiton caelatus'' (Reeve, 1847) * '' Maorichiton schauinslandi'' (Thiele, 1909) These two species are now recognized as a single species ''Plaxiphora caelata ''Plaxiphora caelata'' is a small chiton in the family Mopaliidae, endemic to the main islands of New Zealand, Stewart Island and the Chatham Islands. Description and habitat A cryptic species up to 45 millimetres long but usually 20-25 millimet ...'' (Reeve, 1847)Cook, Steve De C., New Zealand Coastal Marine Invertebrates Vol 1, Canterbury University Press, NZ 2010 References {{Taxonbar, from=Q16938360 Mopaliidae ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maorichiton Schauinslandi
''Maorichiton schauinslandi'' is a species of chiton in the family Mopaliidae. Distribution New Zealand New Zealand ( mi, Aotearoa ) is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. It consists of two main landmasses—the North Island () and the South Island ()—and over 700 List of islands of New Zealand, smaller islands. It is the ... Powell A. W. B. (1979). ''New Zealand Mollusca'', William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand, References Mopaliidae Molluscs described in 1909 {{Chiton-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maorichiton Caelatus
''Plaxiphora caelata'' is a small chiton in the family Mopaliidae, endemic to the main islands of New Zealand, Stewart Island and the Chatham Islands. Description and habitat A cryptic species up to 45 millimetres long but usually 20-25 millimetres, the shape and colour of the valves is highly variable. Head valve has eight ribs crossed by chevroned wrinkles, median valves a single radial rib on each side, with the tiny tail valve almost triangular. All are cream to dull grey-green coloured with streaks or blotches of dark green, brown, orange or white. The leathery girdle is wide at the sides and narrow at both ends, often with short bristles, usually dark brown with lighter blotches. In the North Island the dorsal surface is sometimes covered in filamentous algae. Like other members of the genus it favours open rock surfaces on wave exposed shores, in crevices or at the base of shaded overhangs in the low intertidal zone The intertidal zone, also known as the foreshore, is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mopaliidae
Mopaliidae is a family of marine molluscs in the class Polyplacophora. Genera There are 10 recognized genera: * '' Amicula'' Gray, 1847 * '' Dendrochiton'' Berry, 1911 * '' Gallardochiton'' Sirenko, 2007 * '' Katharina'' Gray, 1847 * '' Mopalia'' Gray, 1847 * '' Mopaliella'' Thiele, 1909 * ''Nuttallochiton'' Plate, 1899 * ''Placiphorella'' Dall, 1879 * '' Placiphorina'' Kaas & Van Belle, 1994 * ''Plaxiphora ''Plaxiphora'' is a genus of chitons in the family Mopaliidae. Species * ''Plaxiphora albida'' ( Blainville, 1825) * '' Plaxiphora atlantica'' * ''Plaxiphora aurata'' (Spalowsky 1795) * '' Plaxiphora aurea'' * ''Plaxiphora australis'' Suter, ...'' Gray, 1847 (synonym '' Maorichiton'' Iredale, 1914) References Mollusc families Chitons Taxa named by William Healey Dall {{chiton-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chitonida
Chitonida is an order of chitons. Taxonomy * Suborder Chitonina Thiele, 1910 * Superfamily Chitonoidea Rafinesque, 1815 ** Family † Ochmazochitonidae Hoare et Smith, 1984 *** †'' Ochmazochiton'' Hoare et Smith, 1984 ** Family Ischnochitonidae Dall, 1889 *** ''Ischnochiton'' Gray, 1847 *** '' Stenochiton'' Adams et Angas, 1864 *** '' Stenoplax'' Carpenter) Dall, 1879 *** '' Lepidozona'' Pilsbry, 1892 *** ''Stenosemus'' Middendorff, 1847 *** '' Subterenochiton'' Iredale et Hull, 1924 *** '' Thermochiton'' Saito et Okutani, 1990 *** '' Connexochiton'' Kaas, 1979 *** '' Tonicina'' Thiele, 1906 ** Family Callistoplacidae Pilsbry, 1893 *** '' Ischnoplax'' Dall, 1879 *** '' Callistochiton'' Carpenter) Dall *** '' Callistoplax'' Dall, 1882 *** '' Ceratozona'' Dall, 1882 *** '' Calloplax'' Thiele, 1909 ** Family Chaetopleuridae Plate, 1899 *** ''Chaetopleura'' Shuttleworth, 1853 *** ''Dinoplax'' Carpenter MS, Dall, 1882http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php search term Dinoplax ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chiton
Chitons () are marine molluscs of varying size in the class Polyplacophora (), formerly known as Amphineura. About 940 extant and 430 fossil species are recognized. They are also sometimes known as gumboots or sea cradles or coat-of-mail shells or suck-rocks, or more formally as loricates, polyplacophorans, and occasionally as polyplacophores. Chitons have a shell composed of eight separate shell plates or valves. These plates overlap slightly at the front and back edges, and yet articulate well with one another. Because of this, the shell provides protection at the same time as permitting the chiton to flex upward when needed for locomotion over uneven surfaces, and even allows the animal to curl up into a ball when dislodged from rocks. The shell plates are encircled by a skirt known as a girdle. Habitat Chitons live worldwide, from cold waters through to the tropics. They live on hard surfaces, such as on or under rocks, or in rock crevices. Some species live quite h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Animal
Animals are multicellular, eukaryotic organisms in the Kingdom (biology), biological kingdom Animalia. With few exceptions, animals Heterotroph, consume organic material, Cellular respiration#Aerobic respiration, breathe oxygen, are Motility, able to move, can Sexual reproduction, reproduce sexually, and go through an ontogenetic stage in which their body consists of a hollow sphere of Cell (biology), cells, the blastula, during Embryogenesis, embryonic development. Over 1.5 million Extant taxon, living animal species have been Species description, described—of which around 1 million are Insecta, insects—but it has been estimated there are over 7 million animal species in total. Animals range in length from to . They have Ecology, complex interactions with each other and their environments, forming intricate food webs. The scientific study of animals is known as zoology. Most living animal species are in Bilateria, a clade whose members have a Symmetry in biology#Bilate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mollusca
Mollusca is the second-largest phylum of invertebrate animals after the Arthropoda, the members of which are known as molluscs or mollusks (). Around 85,000 extant species of molluscs are recognized. The number of fossil species is estimated between 60,000 and 100,000 additional species. The proportion of undescribed species is very high. Many taxa remain poorly studied. Molluscs are the largest marine phylum, comprising about 23% of all the named marine organisms. Numerous molluscs also live in freshwater and terrestrial habitats. They are highly diverse, not just in size and anatomical structure, but also in behaviour and habitat. The phylum is typically divided into 7 or 8 taxonomic classes, of which two are entirely extinct. Cephalopod molluscs, such as squid, cuttlefish, and octopuses, are among the most neurologically advanced of all invertebrates—and either the giant squid or the colossal squid is the largest known invertebrate species. The g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neoloricata
Neoloricata comprises the living representatives of the polyplacophoran Chitons () are marine molluscs of varying size in the class Polyplacophora (), formerly known as Amphineura. About 940 extant and 430 fossil species are recognized. They are also sometimes known as gumboots or sea cradles or coat-of-mail shel ... molluscs, but also includes several species only known from fossils. References Chitons {{paleo-mollusc-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Iredale
Tom Iredale (24 March 1880 – 12 April 1972) was an English-born ornithologist and malacologist who had a long association with Australia, where he lived for most of his life. He was an autodidact who never went to university and lacked formal training. This was reflected in his later work; he never revised his manuscripts and never used a typewriter. Early life Iredale was born at Stainburn, Workington in Cumberland, England. He was apprenticed to a pharmacist from 1899 to 1901, and used to go bird watching and egg collecting in the Lake District with fellow chemist William Carruthers Lawrie. New Zealand Iredale emigrated to New Zealand following medical advice, as he had health issues. He may possibly have had tuberculosis. According to a letter to Will Lawrie dated 25 January 1902, he arrived in Wellington, New Zealand in December 1901, and travelled at once on to Lyttelton and Christchurch. On his second day in Christchurch, he discovered that in the Foreign Natural Hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
