Abyssochitonidae

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Lepidopleurina
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Amorphea Cladus: Obazoa Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Cladus: Filozoa Cladus: Choanozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: ParaHoxozoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Cladus: Spiralia Superphylum: Lophotrochozoa Phylum: Mollusca Classis: Polyplacophora Subclassis: Neoloricata Ordo: Lepidopleurida Subordo: Lepidopleurina

Familia: Abyssochitonidae
Genus: Ferreiraella

Name

Abyssochitonidae Dell'Angelo & Palazzi, 1989

• Type genus: Abyssochiton Dell'Angelo & Palazzi, 1989 = synonym of Ferreiraella Sirenko, 1988

Synonymy

• Ferreiraellidae Dell'Angelo & Palazzi, 1991 (invalid: established, in violation of Art. 40, in replacement of Abyssochitonidae)
• Xylochitonidae Gowlett-Holmes & A.M. Jones, 1992

References

Primary references

• Dell'Angelo, B. & Palazzi, S. 1989. Considerazioni sulla Famiglia Leptochitonidae Dall, 1869 (Mollusca: Polyplacophora). III. Le specie terziarie e quaternarie europee, con note sistematiche e filogenetiche. In: Atti della prima giornata di studi malacologici CISMA (Nofroni I., ed.). CISMA, Roma, p. 19–140. Reference page. 
• Gowlett-Holmes, K.L. & Jones, A.M. 1992. Xylochitonidae fam. n., a new family of deep-water chitons, with descritpions of a new genus and species from New Zealand (Polyplacophora: Lepidopleurina). Journal of the Malacological Society of Australia 13(1): 35–44. DOI: 10.1080/00852988.1992.10674032 Reference page.