Placiphorella (SOSA) & Brandt & Chen & Engel & Esquete & Horton & Jażdżewska & Johannsen & Kaiser & Kihara & Knauber & Kniesz & Landschoff & Lörz & Machado & Martínez-Muñoz & Riehl & Serpell-Stevens & Sigwart & Tandberg & Tato & Tsuda & Vončina & Watanabe & Wenz & Williams 2024
Creators: name: (SOSA), Senckenberg Ocean Species Alliance
name: Brandt, Angelika
name: Chen, Chong
name: Engel, Laura
name: Esquete, Patricia
name: Horton, Tammy
name: Jażdżewska, Anna M.
name: Johannsen, Nele
name: Kaiser, Stefanie
name: Kihara, Terue C.
name: Knauber, Henry
name: Kniesz, Katharina
name: Landschoff, Jannes
name: Lörz, Anne-Nina
name: Machado, Fabrizio M.
name: Martínez-Muñoz, Carlos A.
name: Riehl, Torben
name: Serpell-Stevens, Amanda
name: Sigwart, Julia D.
name: Tandberg, Anne Helene S.
name: Tato, Ramiro
name: Tsuda, Miwako
name: Vončina, Katarzyna
name: Watanabe, Hiromi K.
name: Wenz, Christian
name: Williams, Jason D.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Mollusca
Polyplacophora
Chitonida
Mopaliidae
Placiphorella

description: Placiphorella Carpenter in Dall 1879
Type species: Placiphorella velata (Carpenter in Dall, 1879), by original designation.
Composition: Fifteen valid species. Placiphorella albitestae Is. Taki, 1954, Placiphorella atlantica (A. E. Verrill & S. I. Smith in Verrill, 1882), Placiphorella blainvillii (Broderip in Broderip & Sowerby I, 1832), Placiphorella borealijaponica Saito & Okutani, 1989, Placiphorella borealis Pilsbry, 1893, Placiphorella hanselmani R. N. Clark, 1994, Placiphorella isaotakii Saito, Fujikura & Tsuchida, 2008, Placiphorella laurae R. N. Clark, 2019, Placiphorella mirabilis R. N. Clark, 1994, Placiphorella okutanii Saito, Fujikura & Tsuchida, 2008, Placiphorella pacifica S. S. Berry, 1919, Placiphorella rufa S. S. Berry, 1917, Placiphorella stimpsoni (A. Gould, 1859), Placiphorella velata (Carpenter in Dall, 1879) and Placiphorella methanophila Vončina, sp. nov.
Diagnosis: Small to medium size chitons, round to oval in outline. Valves very wide and short; lateral areas usually well defined. Articulamentum white to blue-green; head valve with 8–24 slits; intermediate valves with one slit per side; tail valve with one slit on each side (sometimes obsolete), separated by a caudal sinus. Girdle broadly extended anteriorly and bearing scaled bristles. Pallial fold modified anteriorly into numerous finger-like extensions (precephalic tentacles). Radula with tricuspid major lateral teeth. Edited after Clark (1994): 291, with modifications.
description: Published as part of (SOSA), Senckenberg Ocean Species Alliance, Brandt, Angelika, Chen, Chong, Engel, Laura, Esquete, Patricia, Horton, Tammy, Jażdżewska, Anna M., Johannsen, Nele, Kaiser, Stefanie, Kihara, Terue C., Knauber, Henry, Kniesz, Katharina, Landschoff, Jannes, Lörz, Anne-Nina, Machado, Fabrizio M., Martínez-Muñoz, Carlos A., Riehl, Torben, Serpell-Stevens, Amanda, Sigwart, Julia D., Tandberg, Anne Helene S., Tato, Ramiro, Tsuda, Miwako, Vončina, Katarzyna, Watanabe, Hiromi K., Wenz, Christian & Williams, Jason D., 2024, Ocean Species Discoveries 1 – 12 — A primer for accelerating marine invertebrate taxonomy, pp. e 128431 in Biodiversity Data Journal 12 on page e128431, DOI: 10.3897/BDJ.12.e128431