Plaxiphora is a genus of chitons in the family Mopaliidae. It is distributed in the Atlantic, Indian, and Pacific Oceans, primarily in the south-temperate and subantarctic regions.

Species

There are 22 species:

Extinct species

In 2024, Sirenko and Dell'Angelo described the first extinct species of the genus, Plaxiphorma luzanovskae, discovered through fossils from the Paleocene of Ukraine.

References

Further reading

• Discover Life

• Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979