Species
Katharina tunicata (Black leather chiton)
Katharina tunicata. Photo: (c) Alison Young, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)
Katharina tunicata (Wood, 1815) is commonly known as the black Katy chiton, black Leather chiton, black chiton, or leather chiton is a species of chiton in the family Mopaliidae.
- Humboldt Life
- Kingdom: Animalia (Animals)
- Phylum: Mollusca (Molluscs)
- Class: Polyplacophora (Chitons)
- Subclass: Neoloricata (Neoloricate chitons)
- Order: Chitonida
- Suborder: Acanthochitonina
- Superfamily: Mopalioidea
- Family: Mopaliidae
- Subfamily: Mopaliinae
- Genus: Katharina
- Species: Katharina tunicata (Black leather chiton)
- Genus: Katharina
- Subfamily: Mopaliinae
- Family: Mopaliidae
- Superfamily: Mopalioidea
- Suborder: Acanthochitonina
- Order: Chitonida
- Subclass: Neoloricata (Neoloricate chitons)
- Class: Polyplacophora (Chitons)
- Phylum: Mollusca (Molluscs)
- Kingdom: Animalia (Animals)
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