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Species List for Family: Mopaliidae
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Mollusca (Phylum) > Polyplacophora (Class) > Neoloricata (Subclass) > Chitonida (Order) > Mopalioidea (Superfamily) > Mopaliidae (Family)

  • Family: Mopaliidae

  • Plaxiphora aurata (Spalowsky, 1795)
    Length 75mm, Width 45mm
    Chiton, Marine, Native - Non-endemic
    Southern South America, Macquarie Island and southern New Zealand. Stewart, Snares, Auckland, Campbell, Antipodes, Bounty and Chatham Islands, from 0-18m
  • Plaxiphora australis (Suter, 1907)
    Chiton, Marine, Native - Endemic, Intertidal
    Snares Islands, from 0m
  • Plaxiphora biramosa (Quoy & Gaimard, 1835)
    Length 60mm, Width 40mm
    Chiton, Marine, Native - Endemic, Intertidal
    South-western North Island, eastern and southern South Island, and Chatham Islands, from 0m
  • Plaxiphora boydeni Murdoch, 1982
    Length 12mm, Width 10mm
    Chiton, Marine, Native - Endemic, Intertidal
    South-eastern South Island and Chatham Islands, from 0m
  • Plaxiphora caelata (Reeve, 1847)
    Length 47mm, Width 23mm
    Chiton, Marine, Native - Endemic
    Kermadec, North, South, Stewart and Chatham Islands, from 0-340m
  • Plaxiphora egregia (H. Adams, 1866)
    Length 26mm, Width 18mm
    Chiton, Marine, Native - Endemic, Immediate sublittoral, under giant kelp holdfasts
    Southern North Island, eastern South Island and Stewart Island, from 0-18m
  • Plaxiphora murdochi Suter, 1905
    Length 20mm, Width 13mm
    Chiton, Marine, Native - Endemic, Under smooth stones at very low water
    Western North Island and north-western South Island, from 0m
  • Plaxiphora obtecta Carpenter, 1893
    Length 87mm, Width 57mm
    Chiton, Marine, Native - Endemic, Intertidal on open exposed coasts
    North, South and Stewart Islands, from 0-20m
NZ Geographical Regions
Key to symbols used in Checklist.
Fw =
Freshwater
L =
Land
N =
North Island
S =
South Island
R =
Recent
Sf =
Subfossil
Fo =
Fossil