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Plaxiphora

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Plaxiphora
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Plaxiphora is a genus of chitons in the family Mopaliidae.[2][3] It is distributed in the Atlantic, Indian, and Pacific Oceans,[3] primarily in the south-temperate and subantarctic regions.[4]

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Species

There are 22 species:[2]

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.[5]

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