''Callochiton'' is a
genus
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of
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 sea cradles or coat-of-mail shells or suck ...
s in the
family
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Callochitonidae.
[MolluscaBase eds. (2022). MolluscaBase. Callochiton Gray, 1847. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=138085 on 2022-06-22]
Species
* ''
Callochiton crocinus
''Callochiton crocinus'' is a species of chiton or "sea cradle" in the family (biology), family Callochitonidae. It occurs on the shores of the Australia-New Zealand region. Locally, it is known as "smooth chiton", but that name is elsewhere appl ...
''
(Reeve, 1847)
* ''
Callochiton dentatus''
Spengler
Oswald Arnold Gottfried Spengler (29 May 1880 – 8 May 1936) was a German polymath whose areas of interest included history, philosophy, mathematics, science, and art, as well as their relation to his organic theory of history. He is best kno ...
, 1797
* ''
Callochiton empleurus''
(Hutton, 1872)
* ''
Callochiton kapitiensis''
Mestayer, 1926
* ''
Callochiton mortenseni''
Odhner, 1924
* ''
Callochiton puniceus''
(Gould, 1846)
* ''
Callochiton septemvalvis''
( Montagu, 1803)
* ''
Callochiton subeudoxa''
( Iredale and Hull, 1930
* ''
Callochiton sulculatus''
Suter
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* Alexis P. Suter (born 1963), American blues, and soul blues singer and songwriter
* Andrew Burn Suter (1830–1895), Bishop of the Diocese of Nelson, New Zealand
* Andrina Suter (bor ...
, 1907
References
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*
Powell A. W. B., ''New Zealand Mollusca'',
William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979
* Iredale, T. & Hull, A. F. B. (1929). The loricates of the neozelanic region. Australian Zoologist 6: 75–95.
* Vaught, K.C.; Tucker Abbott, R.; Boss, K.J. (1989). A classification of the living Mollusca. American Malacologists: Melbourne. ISBN 0-915826-22-4. XII, 195 pp
* Liu, J.Y.
uiyu(ed.). (2008). Checklist of marine biota of China seas. China Science Press. 1267 pp.
External links
Gray, J. E. (1847). Additional observations on Chitones. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. (1847) 15 (178): 126-127Cotton, B. C. & Weeding, B. J. (1939). Flindersian Loricates. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia. 63(2): 180-199Ashby, E. & Cotton, B. C. (1939). New fossil chitons from the Miocene and Pliocene of Victoria. Records of the South Australian Museum. 6(3): 209–242, pls. 19–21
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Callochitonidae
Extant Oligocene first appearances
Chiton genera