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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).
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Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Blainville
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Mollusca
- Order
- Chitonida
- Family
- Cryptoplacidae
- Genus
- Cryptoplax
- Taxon rank
- genus
- Taxonomic concept label
- Cryptoplax Blainville, 1818 sec. Dell'Angelo, Landau, Sosso & Taviani, 2020
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