Cryptoconchus

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Kingdom Animalia Class Polyplacophora Family Acanthochitonidae		Phylum Mollusca Order Neoloricata

Genus CryptoconchusBlainville in Burrow, 1815

Cryptoconchus is a genus of chitons in the family Acanthochitonidae.

Species

Cryptoconchus porosus - the butterfly chiton

Cryptoconchus floridanus - the white-barred chiton

The genus is also represented in the fossil record, in Pliocene and Pleistocene rocks.

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