WoRMS taxon details

Acanthopleura brevispinosa (G. B. Sowerby II, 1840)

211922  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:211922)

  1. Biota
  2. Animalia (Kingdom)
  3. Mollusca (Phylum)
  4. Polyplacophora (Class)
  5. Neoloricata (Subclass)
  6. Chitonida (Order)
  7. Chitonina (Suborder)
  8. Chitonoidea (Superfamily)
  9. Chitonidae (Family)
  10. Acanthopleurinae (Subfamily)
  11. Acanthopleura (Genus)
  12. Acanthopleura brevispinosa (Species)
accepted
Species
Acanthopleura spiniger (G. B. Sowerby II, 1840) (the nominal species is a synonym of Acanthopleura gemmata; the SW Indian Ocean records refer to A. brevispinosa; Red Sea records to A. vaillantii (see Kaas et al. 2006))
marine
Not documented
Description Distinctive, large species with dimpled plate margins and a dark girdle of conspicuous spicules, up to 7 cm. Habitat:...  
Description Distinctive, large species with dimpled plate margins and a dark girdle of conspicuous spicules, up to 7 cm. Habitat: littoral fringe rock surfaces. Distribution: Western Indian Ocean (Richmond, 1997). [details]
MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Acanthopleura brevispinosa (G. B. Sowerby II, 1840). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=211922 on 2020-02-23
Date
action
by
1997-04-16 06:07:12Z
created
Onyango, Eunice
2000-09-13 07:19:12Z
changed
Garcia, Maria
2006-05-05 13:30:38Z
changed
Vanden Berghe, Edward
2009-03-23 08:24:45Z
changed
Schwabe, Enrico
2012-05-14 15:31:10Z
changed
Gille, Didier
2012-08-15 02:02:24Z
changed
Rosenberg, Gary
2016-07-23 16:02:17Z
changed
Bouchet, Philippe

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basis of record Taylor, J. D. (1971). Intertidal Zonation at Aldabra Atoll. <em>Phil. Trns. Roy. Soc. Lond. B.</em> 260:173-213. [details]   

additional source Kaas P. (1996). Chitons (Mollusca: Polyplacophora) from the Seychelles with description of a new species. <em>Zoologische Mededelingen.</em> 70(25): 367-375., available online at http://dare.uva.nl/cgi/arno/show.cgi?fid=150665 [details]   
 
 Present  Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
 

From other sources
Description Distinctive, large species with dimpled plate margins and a dark girdle of conspicuous spicules, up to 7 cm. Habitat: littoral fringe rock surfaces. Distribution: Western Indian Ocean (Richmond, 1997). [details]
 

LanguageName 
English thorny chiton  [details]
To Barcode of Life (1 barcode) 
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (16 publications) 
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (45 publications) (from synonym Acanthopleura spiniger (G. B. Sowerby II, 1840))
To Encyclopedia of Life 
To European Nucleotide Archive (ENA) 
To GenBank (2 nucleotides; 1 proteins) 
Acanthopleura brevispinosa
 Acanthopleura brevi...


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