Abstract
Abstract The aesthete canals of fourteen chiton species were cast with epoxy, allowing detailed examination and comparison of the entire canal system that infiltrates their valves (shell plates). Some species in this study have been classified without question in the family Mopaliidae (Mopalia ciliata (Sowerby, 1840), Mopalia lignosa (Gould, 1846), Mopalia spectabilis Cowan and Cowan, 1977, Mopalia swanii Carpenter, 1864, Katharina tunicata (Wood, 1815)), while other species have been placed in that family by some workers but not others (Dendrochiton flectens (Carpenter, 1864), Dendrochiton lirulatus (Berry, 1963), Tonicella insignis (Reeve, 1847), Tonicella lineata (Wood, 1815), Tonicella lokii Clark, 1999, Tonicella marmorea (Fabricius, 1780), Nuttallochiton mirandus (Thiele, 1906), Plaxiphora aurata (Spalowski, 1795)), and one has never been placed in the Mopaliidae (Tonicia chilensis (Frembly, 1827)). The results provide additional evidence that there is high diversity in aesthete canal morphology but...
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