Rhyssoplax

Rhyssoplax Temporal range: Oligocene–Pliocene[1] PreЄ Є O S D C P T J K Pg N
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Polyplacophora
Order:	Chitonida
Family:	Chitonidae
Genus:	Rhyssoplax Thiele, 1893
Species
See text.

Rhyssoplax is a genus of chitons in the family Chitonidae, endemic to Australia, New Zealand, New Caledonia, Norfolk Island, and the Kermadec Islands.

Species

• Rhyssoplax aerea aerea (Reeve, 1847) (holotype)
• Rhyssoplax aerea huttoni (Suter, 1906)
• Rhyssoplax baliensis Bullock, 1989
• Rhyssoplax bednalli (Pilsbry, 1895)
• Rhyssoplax bernardi Ashby
• Rhyssoplax calliozona (Pilsbry, 1894)
• Rhyssoplax canaliculata (Quoy & Gaimard, 1835)
• Rhyssoplax canariensis (d'Orbigny, 1839)
• Rhyssoplax chathamensis (Dell, 1960)
• Rhyssoplax clavata (Suter, 1907)
• Rhyssoplax corallina (Risso, 1826)
• Rhyssoplax corphea
• Rhyssoplax coxi
• Rhyssoplax crawfordi (Sykes, 1899)
• Rhyssoplax densilirata Carpenter in Pilsbry, 1893
• Rhyssoplax diaphora Iredale & May, 1916
• Rhyssoplax discolor (Souverbie, 1866)
• Rhyssoplax exoptanda (Bednall, 1897
• Rhyssoplax funerea
• Rhyssoplax jugosa (Gould, 1846)
• Rhyssoplax kimberi (Ashby, 1929)
• Rhyssoplax kurodai (Taki & Taki, 1929)
• Rhyssoplax linsleyi Burghardt, 1973
• Rhyssoplax mauritiana Quoy and Gaimard
• Rhyssoplax olivacea (Spengler, 1797)
• Rhyssoplax orukta
• Rhyssoplax pulcherrima (Sowerby, 1841)
• Rhyssoplax spinosetatus Bergenhayn
• Rhyssoplax stangeri (Reeve, 1847)
• Rhyssoplax suteri (Iredale, 1910)
• Rhyssoplax torriana
• Rhyssoplax translucens
• Rhyssoplax tricostalis (Pilsbry, 1894)
• Rhyssoplax tulipa (Quoy & Gaimard, 1835)
• Rhyssoplax vaulusensis
• Rhyssoplax venusta

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References

General

• Powell A W B, New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1
• Discover life
• CSIRO

Citations

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