Cryptoplax Blainville, 1818

Dell’Angelo, Bruno, Landau, Bernard M., Sosso, Maurizio & Taviani, Marco, 2020, Late Pleistocene Red Sea Mollusca: 1. Polyplacophora, Zootaxa 4772 (3), pp. 401-449 : 437

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4772.3.1
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3844005
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scientific name	Cryptoplax Blainville, 1818
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Genus Cryptoplax Blainville, 1818 View in CoL

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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Taxonomy

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Mollusca
Class	Polyplacophora
SubClass	Loricata
Order	Chitonida
SubOrder	Acanthochitonina
Family	Cryptoplacidae

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