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| Genus: | Acanthochitona Gray, 1921
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Acanthochitona is a genus of chitons in the family Acanthochitonidae, of world-wide distribution.
These chitons are small, narrow, and elongated, with the valves not encroached upon by the girdle. The head valve has five slits, with the median valves and tail valve each with one slit on each side. The girdle is densely spiculose and with tufts of large stiff bristles at the sutural pores.
Species
- Acanthochitona angelica W. H. Dall, 1919
- Acanthochitona avicula (Carpenter, 1864)
- Acanthochitona balesae Abbott, 1954 - slender glass-hair chiton
- Acanthochitona communis
- Acanthochitona crinita (Pennant, 1777)
- Acanthochitona discrepans (Brown, 1827)
- Acanthochitona fascicularis (Linnaeus, 1767)
- Acanthochitona hemphilli (Pilsbry, 1893) - red glass-hair chiton
- Acanthochitona imperatrix Watters, 1981
- Acanthochitona pygmaea (Pilsbry, 1893) - striate glass-hair chiton
- Acanthochitona roseojugum Lyons, 1988
- Acanthochitona spiculosa Reeve, 1847
- Acanthochitona thileniusi Lyons, 1988
- Acanthochitona zebra Lyons, 1988
- Acanthochitona zelandica (Quoy and Gaimard, 1835)
References
- "Acanthochitona". Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
- Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1