Neoloricata

Neoloricata
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Polyplacophora
Order:	Neoloricata Bergenhayn, 1955
Families^[1]
Suborder Lepidopleurina Leptochitonidae Protochitonidae Hanleyidae Afossochitonidae Suborder Chitonina Ischnochitonidae Mopaliidae Schizochitonidae Chitonidae Suborder Acanthochitonina Cryptoplacidae Acanthochitonidae Lavenachiton (Family uncertain)

Neoloricata comprises the living representatives of the polyplacophoran molluscs, but also includes several species only known from fossils.^[1]

References

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

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