WoRMS taxon details
Acanthopleura spiniger (Sowerby, 1840)
AphiaID: 211923
AphiaID: 211923
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Polyplacophora (Class) > Neoloricata (Subclass) > Chitonida (Order) > Chitonina (Suborder) > Chitonoidea (Superfamily) > Chitonidae (Family) > Acanthopleurinae (Subfamily) > Acanthopleura (Genus) |
| Status |  unaccepted (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)) | |||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||||||||
| Accepted name | Acanthopleura brevispinosa (Sowerby II, 1840) | |||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | |||||||||||||
| Parent | Acanthopleura Guilding, 1829 | |||||||||||||
| Source |
basis of record: Leloup, E. (1981). Chitons de Tulear, Reunion, Maurice et Tahiti. Bull. Inst. R. Sci. nat. Belg. (Biologie) 53(3): 1-46. [details] | |||||||||||||
| Distribution | Madagascar [details] Red Sea [details] Tanzania [details] | |||||||||||||
| Link | To Biodiversity Heritage Library (34 publications) | |||||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:211923 | |||||||||||||
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| Citation: Schwabe, E. (2013). Acanthopleura spiniger (Sowerby, 1840). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=211923 on 2013-06-19 | ||||||||||||||
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