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Acanthochitona penicillata (Deshayes, 1863) 
AphiaID: 367632

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 penicillatus Deshayes, 1863
 Chiton penicillatus Deshayes, 1863 (original combination)
Sources  additional source: Strack H.L. (1993) The Polyplacophora of the Red Sea. Journal of the Malacological Society of Australia 14: 1-40. [30 October 1993] [details]

basis of record (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]

basis of record (from synonym): Dautzenberg, Ph. (1929). Contribution à l'étude de la faune de Madagascar: Mollusca marina testacea. Faune des colonies françaises, III(fasc. 4). Société d'Editions géographiques, maritimes et coloniales: Paris. 321-636, plates IV-VII pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] [view taxon]

Environment marine
Distribution Madagascar (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Red Sea (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Reunion (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Links To Encyclopedia of Life
To GenBank (1 nucleotides; 0 proteins)
Image 
Acanthochitona penicillata
Acanthochitona penicillata
added on 2012-07-12 - author: Natural History Museum Rotterdam ()
qualitystatus: not checked
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:367632
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 penicillata (Deshayes, 1863). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=367632 on 2013-06-20
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