Mucrosquama | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Polyplacophora |
Order: | Chitonida |
Family: | Chitonidae |
Subfamily: | Chitoninae |
Genus: |
Mucrosquama Iredale & Hull, 1926 |
Type species | |
Mucrosquama carnosus (Angas, 1867)
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Mucrosquama is a genus of chitons, a polyplacophoran mollusc in the family Chitonidae, first described in 1926 by Tom Iredale and Arthur Francis Basset Hull. [1] [2] The type species is Mucrosquama carnosus first described as Chiton carnosus by Angas in 1867. [1] [2]
There are two species in this genus: [3]
Two further species have been named but are synonymised with those above. [3]