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Chaetopleura (Chaetopleura) apiculata (Say in Conrad, 1834) 
AphiaID: 159930

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Polyplacophora (Class) > Neoloricata (Subclass) > Chitonida (Order) > Chitonina (Suborder) > Chitonoidea (Superfamily) > Chaetopleuridae (Family) > Chaetopleura (Genus) > Chaetopleura (Chaetopleura) (Subgenus)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Chaetopleura (Chaetopleura) (Shuttleworth, 1853)
Synonymised
taxa
  Chiton apiculatus Say in Conrad, 1834 (original combination)
Sources  basis of record: ITIS database, available online at http://www.itis.gov [details]

basis of record: Pollock, L.W. (1998). A practical guide to the marine animals of northeastern North America. Rutgers University Press. New Brunswick, New Jersey & London. 367 pp., available online at http://books.google.com/books?id=i1AmT31cuR4C  [details]

additional source: Lyons, W. G. and F. Moretzsohn. 2009. Polyplacophora (Mollusca) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 569–578 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas. [details]

Vernacular
Names
 
Language   Name 
English eastern beaded chiton  [details]
Environment marine
Distribution Gulf of Mexico [details]
North West Atlantic [details]
Links To Encyclopedia of Life
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection
To ITIS
Note  Distribution: Virginian, south side of Cape Cod, and extending northward of the subprovince limit [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:159930
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2005-05-30 13:01:42Z  created  Claus, Simon
2009-03-23 08:24:45Z  changed  Schwabe, Enrico
  
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  Citation: Schwabe, E. (2013). Chaetopleura (Chaetopleura) apiculata (Say in Conrad, 1834). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=159930 on 2013-05-23
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