Cryptoconchus

Cryptoconchus Temporal range:
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.

• 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.¹