Chitonida

Translingual

Chiton cumingsi

Etymology

Chiton +‎ -ida

Proper noun

Chitonida

1. The chitons, molluscs with a shell that is divided into eight articulating valves of aragonite.
   1. A taxonomic order within the class Polyplacophora.
   2. A taxonomic order within the subclass Neoloricata.
   3. A taxonomic suborder within the order Neoloricata.

Synonyms

• (order): Ischnochitonina

Hypernyms

• (order): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Animalia – kingdom; Bilateria – subkingdom; Protostomia – infrakingdom; Spiralia – superphylum; Mollusca – phylum; Polyplacophora - class

Hyponyms

• (order): Acanthochitonina, Chitonina - suborders
  • Acanthochitonidae, Choriplacidae, Cryptoplacidae, Hemiarthridae, Lepidochitonidae, Mopaliidae, Schizoplacidae; Callistoplacidae, Callochitonidae, Chaetopleuridae, Chitonidae, Ischnochitonidae, Loricidae, Schizochitonidae - families

References

• Chitonida on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Polyplacophora on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Category:Chitonida on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Chitonida at World Register of Marine Species
• Chitonida at Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
• Polyplacophora at the Tree of Life Web Project
• Chitonida at National Center for Biotechnology Information

• Ruggiero MA, Gordon DP, Orrell TM, Bailly N, Bourgoin T, Brusca RC, et al. (2015) A Higher Level Classification of All Living Organisms. PLoS ONE 10(4): e0119248. PMID 25923521, doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0119248