Cryptoconchus

Cryptoconchus Temporal range: Pliocene–Recent^[1] PreЄ Є O S D C P T J K Pg N

The butterfly chiton, Cryptoconchus porosus.
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Order:	Neoloricata
Family:	Acanthochitonidae
Genus:	Cryptoconchus Blainville in Burrow, 1815
Species
C. floridanus (Dall, 1889) C. porosus (Burrow, 1815)

Cryptoconchus is a genus of chitons in the family Acanthochitonidae.

Species

Cryptoconchus porosus - the butterfly chiton
Cryptoconchus floridanus - the white-barred chiton

Extinct species

The genus is also represented in the fossil record, in Pliocene and Pleistocene rocks.^[1]

References

1 2 van Belle, R. A. (1981). Catalogue of Fossil Chitons. ISBN 90 6279 018 6.

"Cryptoconchus". Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
Powell A W B, New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1

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