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Chiton nigrovirescens Blainville, 1825 
AphiaID: 224906

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Polyplacophora (Class) > Neoloricata (Subclass) > Chitonida (Order) > Chitonina (Suborder) > Chitonoidea (Superfamily) > Chitonidae (Family) > Chitoninae (Subfamily) > Chiton (Genus)
Status unaccepted unaccepted (original combination)
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Accepted name  Radsia nigrovirescens (Blainville, 1825)
Rank Species
Parent Chiton Linnaeus, 1758
Sources  original description: Blainville H.M.D. de (1825). Oscabrion, Chiton, pp. 519-555, in: Dictionnaire des Sciences Naturelles (F. Cuvier, ed.), vol. 36. Levrault, Strasbourg & Paris, & Le Normant, Paris. , available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/25305184
page(s): 538 [details]


basis of record: Branch, G.M. et al. (2002). Two Oceans. 5th impression. David Philip, Cate Town & Johannesburg., available online at http://books.google.es/books?id=W_2QB8ftLgcC [details]

Vernacular
Names
 
Language   Name 
English brooding chiton  [details]
Environment marine
Distribution Atlantic [details]
East Coast of South Africa [details]
Namibia [details]
South Africa [details]
Link To Biodiversity Heritage Library (9 publications)
Note  Habitat: Known from rocky shores. [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:224906
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2006-03-17 07:57:46Z  created  Mussai, Prakash
2009-03-23 14:09:41Z  changed  Schwabe, Enrico
  
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  Citation: Schwabe, E. (2013). Chiton nigrovirescens Blainville, 1825. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=224906 on 2013-05-23
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