POLYPLACOPHORA Gray, 1821
(chitons, coat-of-mail shells)

POLYPLACOPHORA (chitons, coat-of-mail shells) may be included in 'fed on by' relations listed under the following higher taxa:

Taxonomic hierarchy:
ClassPOLYPLACOPHORA (chitons, coat-of-mail shells)
PhylumMOLLUSCA (slugs, snails, bivalves, octopus, sea slugs)
SuperphylumLOPHOTROCHOZOA (molluscs and relatives)
CladeBilateria (bilaterally symmetrical animals)
SubkingdomEUMETAZOA (metazoans)
KingdomANIMALIA (animals)
DomainEukaryota (eukaryotes)
LifeBIOTA (living things)
NBNNBN (data.nbn.org.uk) has a distribution map for POLYPLACOPHORA (chitons, coat-of-mail shells)

Identification Works

Handling & MagnificationAuthorYearTitleSource
Jones, A.M. & Baxter, J.M. 1987 Molluscs: Caudofoveata, Solenogastres, Polyplacophora and Scaphopoda Synopses of the British Fauna (New Series), 37, The Linnean Society of London
Matthews, G. 1967 The Identification of British Chitons Papers of Students, No. 9, Conchological Society of Great Britain and Ireland

POLYPLACOPHORA (chitons, coat-of-mail shells) may also be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

General Works

AuthorYearTitleSource
Gordon, L.M. & Joester, D. 2011 Nanoscale chemical tomography of buried organic–inorganic interfaces in the chiton tooth Nature 469: 194-197.

Literature listed under the following higher taxa may also be relevant to POLYPLACOPHORA (chitons, coat-of-mail shells):

BioImagesBioImages (www.bioimages.org.uk) has 121 images of POLYPLACOPHORA (chitons, coat-of-mail shells)
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