African Register of Marine Species (AfReMaS) - Acanthopleura spiniger (G. B. Sowerby II, 1839)

AfReMaS name details

Acanthopleura spiniger (G. B. Sowerby II, 1839)

AphiaID

211923 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:211923)

Classification

Status

unaccepted (the nominal species is a synonym of Acanthopleura gemmata; W Indian Ocean records refer to A. testudo; Red Sea records to A. vaillantii (see Kaas et al. 2006))

Accepted Name

Acanthopleura gemmata (Blainville, 1825)

Rank

Species

Parent

Acanthopleura Guilding, 1830

Orig. name

Chiton spiniger G. B. Sowerby II, 1839

Environment

marine

Original description

(of ) Sowerby, G. B. I; Sowerby, G. B. II. (1832-1841). The conchological illustrations or, Coloured figures of all the hitherto unfigured recent shells. London, privately published. , available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/109863
page(s): pl. 161, fig. 68. [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2024). MolluscaBase. Acanthopleura spiniger (G. B. Sowerby II, 1839). Accessed through: Odido, M.; Appeltans, W.; BelHassen, M.; Mussai, P.; Nsiangango, S.E.; Vandepitte, L.; Wambiji, N.; Zamouri, N. Jiddou, A.M. (Eds) (2024) African Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/afremas/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=211923 on 2024-04-19

Regional species database citation

Odido, M.; Appeltans, W.; BelHassen, M.; Mussai, P.; Nsiangango, S.E.; Vandepitte, L.; Wambiji, N.; Zamouri, N. Jiddou, A.M. (Eds) (2024). African Register of Marine Species. Acanthopleura spiniger (G. B. Sowerby II, 1839). Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/afremas/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=211923 on 2024-04-19

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2001-10-31 11:20:00Z

created

Vanden Berghe, Edward

2006-05-05 13:30:38Z

changed

Vanden Berghe, Edward

2010-03-30 15:36:44Z

changed

Schwabe, Enrico

2019-08-29 03:34:39Z

changed

Marshall, Bruce

2022-08-30 17:53:33Z

changed

Dekker, Henk

[taxonomic tree]

original description (of ) Sowerby, G. B. I; Sowerby, G. B. II. (1832-1841). The conchological illustrations or, Coloured figures of all the hitherto unfigured recent shells. London, privately published. , available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/109863
page(s): pl. 161, fig. 68. [details]

basis of record Leloup, E. (1981). Chitons de Tuléar, Réunion, Maurice et Tahiti. Bulletin de l'Institut royal des Sciences naturelles de Belgique: Biologie - Bulletin van het Koninklijk Belgisch Instituut voor Natuurwetenschappen: Biologie. 53 (3): 1-46., available online at http://biblio.naturalsciences.be/rbins-publications/bulletin-of-the-royal-belgian-institute-of-natural-sciences-biologie/bulletin-of-the-royal-belgian-institute-of-natural-sciences-biology/53-1981/biologie-1981-53-3-_1-46.pdf [details]

Present

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

To Biodiversity Heritage Library (45 publications)