Aplacophora/æpləˈkɒfərə/ is a presumably paraphyletic taxon. This is a class of small, deep-water, exclusively benthic, marine molluscs found in all oceans of the world. [1]
All known modern forms are shell-less: only some extinct primitive forms possessed valves. The group comprises the two clades Solenogastres (Neomeniomorpha) and Caudofoveata (Chaetodermomorpha), which between them contain 28 families and about 320 species. The aplacophorans are traditionally considered ancestral to the other mollusc classes. However, the relationship between the two aplacophoran groups and to the other molluscan classes and to each other is as yet unclear.
Aplacophorans are cylindrical and worm-like in form, and most very small, being no longer than 5 centimetres (2 in); some species, however, can reach a length of 30 centimetres (12 in).
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if a phosphatic mould quickly forms during diagenesis. The shell-less aplacophora have a chitinous cuticle that has been likened to the shell framework;...
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0602578103. PMC 1472512. PMID 16675549. Scheltema, A.H. (1 February 1993). "Aplacophora as progenetic Aculiferans and the Coelomate origin of mollusks as the...
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polyplacophora (but not basal chitons, such as Hanleya) but is unusual in aplacophora. Developmentally, sclerite-secreting cells arise from pretrochal and...
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