Cryptoconchus

Cryptoconchus; Temporal range: Pliocene–Recent[1] PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
	The butterfly chiton, Cryptoconchus porosus.
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Polyplacophora
Order:	Chitonida
Family:	Acanthochitonidae
Genus:	Cryptoconchus; Blainville in Burrow, 1815
Species
	C. floridanus (Dall, 1889) ; C. porosus (Burrow, 1815);

Cryptoconchus is a genus of chitons in the family Acanthochitonidae.

Species

The genus is also represented in the fossil record, in Pliocene and Pleistocene rocks.[1]

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