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Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorAcanthopleura spinosa (Bruguière, 1792) 
AphiaID: 211920

Classification: Biota > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorAnimalia (Kingdom) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorMollusca (Phylum) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorPolyplacophora (Class) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorNeoloricata (Subclass) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorChitonida (Order) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorChitonina (Suborder) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorChitonoidea (Superfamily) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorChitonidae (Family) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorAcanthopleurinae (Subfamily) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorAcanthopleura (Genus)
Status accepted
Rank Species
Parent Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorAcanthopleura Guilding, 1829
Synonymised
names		  Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorChiton spinosus Bruguière, 1792 (original combination)
Source  basis of record Richmond, M. (Ed.) (1997). A guide to the seashores of Eastern Africa and the Western Indian Ocean islands. Sida/Department for Research Cooperation, SAREC: Stockholm, Sweden. ISBN 91-630-4594-X. 448 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details]

Environment marine
Links Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorTo Barcode of Life (1 barcode) 
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorTo Biodiversity Heritage Library (21 publications) 
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorTo Encyclopedia of Life 
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorTo GenBank (4 nucleotides; 1 proteins) 
ImageChecked: verified by a taxonomic editor 
spinosa
spinosa

Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editor[show all]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:211920
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
1998-04-27 14:26:43Z  created  Vanden Berghe, Edward
2000-05-25 20:30:53Z  changed  Vanden Berghe, Edward
2006-05-05 13:30:38Z  changed  Vanden Berghe, Edward
2009-03-23 08:24:45Z  changed  Schwabe, Enrico
  
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  Citation: Schwabe, E. (2014). Acanthopleura spinosa. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=211920 on 2014-04-19
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