Guildingia is a genus of chitons in the family Mopaliidae.

They are large, with smooth valves, and a wide girdle thickly beset with long hair-like processes. There are eight slits in the head valve, one on each side in the median valves, and none in the posterior valve.

They are endemic to New Zealand.

Species

• Guildingia obtecta (Pilsbry, 1893)
• Guildingia tutamoensis

References

• Royal Society of New Zealand
• Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1