Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Mollusca

Aplacophora Ihering, 1876

Rank: Superclass
Taxon Status: accepted

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Japanese: 無板綱

original description	Ihering, H. von. (1876). Versuch eines natürlichen Systemes der Mollusken. Jahrbucher d. Deutschen Malakozoologischen Gesellschaft. 3: 97-148. [April].
basis of record	Haszprunar G. (2000) Is the Aplacophora monophyletic? A cladistic point of view. American Malacological Bulletin 15: 115-130.
basis of record	Scheltema, Amélie H. 1993. Aplacophora as progenetic aculiferans and the coelomate origin of mollusks as the sister taxon of Sipuncula. Biological Bulletin, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole 184(1): 57-78.
basis of record	Kocot, K. M., Todt, C., Mikkelsen, N. T. & Halanych, K. M. (2019). Phylogenomics of Aplacophora (Mollusca, Aculifera) and a solenogaster without a foot. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 286 (1902): 1-9.

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Aplacophora. Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:411