Chitonina is a suborder of

polyplacophoran Chitons () are marine (ocean), marine molluscs of varying size in the class (biology), class Polyplacophora (), formerly known as Amphineura. About 940 Extant taxon, extant and 430 fossil species are recognized. They are also sometimes known ...

mollusc Mollusca is the second-largest phylum of invertebrate animals after the Arthropoda, the members of which are known as molluscs or mollusks (). Around 85,000 extant species of molluscs are recognized. The number of fossil species is esti ...

belonging to the orfer Chitonida. MolluscaBase eds. (2022). MolluscaBase. Chitonina. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=382004 on 2022-06-22

Superfamilies

The suborder includes both living and extinct species. * Chitonoidea Rafinesque, 1815 * Schizochitonoidea Dall, 1889

References

* Sirenko B.I. 1993. Revision of the system of the order Chitonida (Molluscs: Polyplacophora) on the basis of correlation between the type of gills arrangement and the shape of the chorion processes. Ruthenica 3: 93-117 Chitons Prehistoric mollusc taxonomy Mollusc suborders {{paleo-mollusc-stub