Chaetodermatidae is a family of
molluscs
Mollusca is a phylum of protostome, protostomic invertebrate animals, whose members are known as molluscs or mollusks (). Around 76,000 extant taxon, extant species of molluscs are recognized, making it the second-largest animal phylum ...
belonging to the order
Caudofoveata
Caudofoveata is a small class within the phylum Mollusca, also known as Chaetodermomorpha. The class is often combined with Solenogastres and termed Aplacophora, but some studies have cast doubt on the monophyly of this group.
Anatomy
Caudof ...
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Genera:
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Chaetoderma''
Lovén, 1844
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Falcidens
''Falcidens'' is one of three genera within the family Chaetodermatida; its radula consists of a single row of teeth which are mineralized in crystalline hydroxyapatite (a most unusual mineral in organisms), and its teeth are not periodically s ...
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Salvini-Plawen, 1968
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Furcillidens''
Scheltema, 1998
References
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Chaetodermatidae
Mollusc families