Plaxiphora is a genus of chitons in the family Mopaliidae.

They are small to large, all with a leathery girdle, more or less bristly, but never with scales. The head valve has eight slits, and the tail valve none or occasionally with a single slit on each side. They are found around circum-subantarctic islands.

Species

• Plaxiphora albida
• Plaxiphora atlantica
• Plaxiphora aurata campbelli Filhol, 1880
• Plaxiphora aurata
• Plaxiphora aurata (Spalowsky 1795)
• Plaxiphora aurea
• Plaxiphora australis Suter,1907
• Plaxiphora bednalli
• Plaxiphora boydeni
• Plaxiphora brevispinosa
• Plaxiphora caelata (Reeve, 1847)
• Plaxiphora costata (Blainville)
• Plaxiphora dardennei
• Plaxiphora fernandezi
• Plaxiphora frigida
• Plaxiphora glauca
• Plaxiphora hiramosa
• Plaxiphora kamehamehae
• Plaxiphora marquesana
• Plaxiphora matthewsi
• Plaxiphora mercatoris Leloup, 1936
• Plaxiphora mixta
• Plaxiphora murdochi Suter,1905
• Plaxiphora obscurella
• Plaxiphora obtecta Carpenter in Pilsbry, 1893
• Plaxiphora paeteliana
• Plaxiphora petholata
• Plaxiphora petholatus
• Plaxiphora reoplendens
• Plaxiphora schauinslandi
• Plaxiphora setiger
• Plaxiphora setigera
• Plaxiphora tricolor
• Plaxiphora tulearensis

References

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