Chitonida

Translingual

Chiton cumingsi

Etymology

Chiton +‎ -ida

Proper noun

Chitonida

The chitons, molluscs with a shell that is divided into eight articulating valves of aragonite.
1. A taxonomic order within the class Polyplacophora.
2. A taxonomic order within the subclass Neoloricata.
3. A taxonomic suborder within the order Neoloricata.

Synonyms

(order): Ischnochitonina

Hypernyms

(order): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Animalia – kingdom; Bilateria – subkingdom; Protostomia – infrakingdom; Spiralia – superphylum; Mollusca – phylum; Polyplacophora - class

Hyponyms

(order): Acanthochitonina, Chitonina - suborders
- Acanthochitonidae, Choriplacidae, Cryptoplacidae, Hemiarthridae, Lepidochitonidae, Mopaliidae, Schizoplacidae; Callistoplacidae, Callochitonidae, Chaetopleuridae, Chitonidae, Ischnochitonidae, Loricidae, Schizochitonidae - families

References

Chitonida on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Polyplacophora on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
Category:Chitonida on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
Chitonida at World Register of Marine Species
Chitonida at Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
Polyplacophora at the Tree of Life Web Project
Chitonida at Encyclopedia of Life
Chitonida at National Center for Biotechnology Information

Ruggiero MA, Gordon DP, Orrell TM, Bailly N, Bourgoin T, Brusca RC, et al. (2015) A Higher Level Classification of All Living Organisms. PLoS ONE 10(4): e0119248. PMID 25923521, doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0119248

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