Mucrosquama

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]

Mucrosquama
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Polyplacophora
Order:	Chitonida
Family:	Chitonidae
Subfamily:	Chitoninae
Genus:	Mucrosquama Iredale & Hull, 1926
Type species
Mucrosquama carnosus (Angas, 1867)

There are two species in this genus:^[3]

• Mucrosquama carnosa (Angas, 1867)
• Mucrosquama verconis (Torr & Ashby, 1898)

Two further species have been named but are synonymised with those above.^[3]

• Mucrosquama nielseni Cotton & Weeding, 1939 accepted as Mucrosquama carnosa (Angas, 1867)
• Mucrosquama sheardi Cotton & Weeding, 1939 accepted as Mucrosquama verconis (Torr & Ashby, 1898)