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Cryptoplax Blainville 1818

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Genus Cryptoplax Blainville, 1818

Type species. Chiton larvaeformis Burrow, 1815, by subsequent designation (Gray 1821: 234).

Remarks. Cryptoplax occurs in tropical and subtropical waters of the Indo-Pacific. The genus extends back to the Miocene of Italy and Paratethys (Dell’Angelo et al. 2016; Dulai 2005), Indonesia, Fiji (Schwabe et al. 2008) and West Pacific Islands (Ladd 1966).

Notes

Published as part of Dell'Angelo, Bruno, Landau, Bernard M., Sosso, Maurizio & Taviani, Marco, 2020, Late Pleistocene Red Sea Mollusca: 1. Polyplacophora, pp. 401-449 in Zootaxa 4772 (3) on page 437, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4772.3.1, http://zenodo.org/record/3819654

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References

  • Blainville, H. M. D. de (1818) Cryptoplax. In: Cuvier, F. (Ed.), Dictionnaire des Sciences Naturelles. Vol. 12. F. G. Levrault, Strasbourg and Le Normant, Paris, pp. 124.
  • Burrow, E. J. (1815) Elements of Conchology, according to the Linnean System. J. Duncan, London, xix + 245 pp., 28 pls. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 11498
  • Gray, J. E. (1821) A natural arrangement of Mollusca, according to their internal structure. The London Medical Repository, 15, 229 - 239.
  • Dell'Angelo, B., Giuntelli, P., Sosso, M. & Zunino, M. (2016) Polyplacophora from the Miocene of North Italy. Part 2: Callochitonidae, Chitonidae, Lepidochitonidae, Acanthochitonidae and Cryptoplacidae. Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia, 122, 23 - 54.
  • Dulai, A. (2005) Badenian (Middle Miocene) Polyplacophora from the Central Paratethys (Band and Devecser, Bakony Mountains, Hungary). Fragmenta Palaeontologica Hungarica, 23, 29 - 50.
  • Schwabe, E., Sirenko, B. I. & Seeto, J. (2008) A checklist of Polyplacophora (Mollusca) from the Fiji Islands. Zootaxa, 1777 (1), 1 - 52. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 1777.1.1
  • Ladd, H. S. (1966) Chitons and Gastropods (Haliotidae through Adeorbidae) from the western Pacific islands. Geological Survey Professional Paper, 531, 1 - 98, 16 pls. https: // doi. org / 10.3133 / pp 531