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Acanthochitona zelandica (Quoy & Gaimard, 1835) 
AphiaID: 367630

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Polyplacophora (Class) > Neoloricata (Subclass) > Chitonida (Order) > Acanthochitonina (Suborder) > Cryptoplacoidea (Superfamily) > Acanthochitonidae (Family) > Acanthochitona (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Acanthochitona Gray, 1821
Synonymised
taxa
  Acanthochiton zelandicus
Chiton zelandicus Quoy & Gaimard, 1835 (original combination)
Sources  additional source: Spencer, H.G., Marshall, B.A. & Willan, R.C. 2009 Recent Mollusca. Pp 196-219 in: Gordon, D.P. (Ed.), The New Zealand inventory of biodiversity. 1. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. Canterbury University Press, Christchurch [details]

from synonym: Leloup, E. (1981). Chitons de Tulear, Reunion, Maurice et Tahiti. Bull. Inst. R. Sci. nat. Belg. (Biologie) 53(3): 1-46. [details] [view taxon]

Environment marine
Distribution New Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Link To Encyclopedia of Life
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:367630
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2008-09-24 08:06:48Z  created  Decock, Wim
2009-03-23 08:24:45Z  changed  Schwabe, Enrico
  
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  Citation: Schwabe, E. (2013). Acanthochitona zelandica (Quoy & Gaimard, 1835). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=367630 on 2013-05-25
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