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Amicula amiculata (Pallas, 1788)

386339  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:386339)

  1. Biota
  2. Animalia (Kingdom)
  3. Mollusca (Phylum)
  4. Polyplacophora (Class)
  5. Neoloricata (Subclass)
  6. Chitonida (Order)
  7. Acanthochitonina (Suborder)
  8. Mopalioidea (Superfamily)
  9. Mopaliidae (Family)
  10. Mopaliinae (Subfamily)
  11. Amicula (Genus)
  12. Amicula amiculata (Species)
accepted
Species
Amicula emersonii (Couthouy, 1838) · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Amicula pallasii (Middendorff, 1847) · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Amicula vestita (Broderip & G. B. Sowerby I, 1829) · unaccepted > superseded combination
Chiton amiculatus Pallas, 1788 · unaccepted (original combination)
Chiton emersonianus A. Gould, 1841 · unaccepted > unjustified emendation (Unjustified emendation of Chiton...)  
Unjustified emendation of Chiton emersonii Couthoy, 1838
Chiton pallasii Middendorff, 1847 · unaccepted (a junior synonym)
Chiton vestitus Broderip & G. B. Sowerby I, 1829 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Stimpsoniella emersonii (Couthouy, 1838) · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Stimpsoniella pallasii (Middendorff, 1847) · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Symmetrogephyrus pallasii (Middendorff, 1847) · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
marine, fresh, terrestrial
(of Chiton amiculatus Pallas, 1788) Pallas P. S. (1788). Marina varia nova et rariora. <em>Nova Acta Academiae Scientiarum Imperialis Petropolitanea.</em> 2: 229-249, plates 5-7., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/10095676
page(s): 241, pl. VII, fig. 26-30 [details] OpenAccess publication
Distribution Boreal-arctic species. Widespread in the Beaufort, Chukchi, East Siberian, Bering, and Okhotsk seas, as well as around...  
Distribution Boreal-arctic species. Widespread in the Beaufort, Chukchi, East Siberian, Bering, and Okhotsk seas, as well as around Kamchatka and off the Commander and Northern Kuril Islands. In the Atlantic Ocean, this species inhabits the waters off the coast of North America, extending southward to the Cape Cod Peninsula. These species are most commonly found in the southern Chukchi Sea, northern Bering Sea, and the northern and western parts of the Sea of Okhotsk. [details]
MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Amicula amiculata (Pallas, 1788). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=386339 on 2025-05-04
Date
action
by
2009-03-23 07:54:34Z
created
Schwabe, Enrico
2009-03-23 08:24:45Z
changed
Schwabe, Enrico
2023-01-25 12:29:44Z
changed
Vinarski, Maxim

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Nomenclature

original description (of Chiton amiculatus Pallas, 1788) Pallas P. S. (1788). Marina varia nova et rariora. <em>Nova Acta Academiae Scientiarum Imperialis Petropolitanea.</em> 2: 229-249, plates 5-7., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/10095676
page(s): 241, pl. VII, fig. 26-30 [details] OpenAccess publication

original description (of Chiton vestitus Broderip & G. B. Sowerby I, 1829) Broderip, W. J. & Sowerby, G. B. I. (1829). Observations on new or interesting Mollusca contained, for the most part, in the Museum of the Zoological Society. <em>Zoological Journal.</em> 4: 359-379, pl. 9. [January]., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/27485275
page(s): 368 [details] 

original description (of Chiton emersonii Couthouy, 1838) Couthouy, J. P. (1838). Descriptions of new species of Mollusca and shells, and remarks on several Polypii, found in Massachussets Bay. <em>Boston Journal of Natural History.</em> 2(1): 53-111., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/32266711
page(s): 83, pl. 3, fig. 10 [details] 

original description (of Chiton emersonianus A. Gould, 1841) Gould, A.A. (1841). Report on the Invertebrata of Massachusetts, Comprising the Mollusca, Crustacea, Annelida, and Radiata. <em>Published Agreeably to an Order of the Legislature, by the Commissioners on the Zoological and Botanical Survey of the State. Folsom, Wells, and Thurston, Cambridge,.</em> xiii + 373 pp., 15 pls., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/76081
page(s): 151 [details] OpenAccess publication

original description (of Chiton pallasii Middendorff, 1847) Middendorff, A.T. von. (1847). Vorläufige Anzeige bisher unbekannter Mollusken, als Vorarbeit zu einer Malacozoologia Rossica. <em>Bulletin de la Classe Physico-Mathématique de l'Académie Impériale des Sciences de Saint-Pétersbourg.</em> 6(8): 113-122., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/45977057
page(s): 117 [details] 

original description (of Amicula rosea Yakovleva, 1952) Yakovleva, A. M. (1952). [in Russian] Shell-bearing Mollusks (Loricata) of the seas of the USSR. Fauna USSR no. 45: 107 pp, 53 figs., 11 pls. Zoological Institute, Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Moscow.
page(s): 86, pl. VI, fig. 4 [details] 

basis of record Sirenko, B. (2024). Revision of the genus <i>Amicula</i> (Mollusca: Polyplacophora: Mopaliidae). <em>Zoosystematica Rossica.</em> 33(2): 363-382., available online at https://doi.org/10.31610/zsr/2024.33.2.363
page(s): 365, figs 1B, C, 2B–E, 3–5, 6A–C, 7, 11 [details] 

 
 Present  Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio   Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
   

From editor or global species database
Distribution Boreal-arctic species. Widespread in the Beaufort, Chukchi, East Siberian, Bering, and Okhotsk seas, as well as around Kamchatka and off the Commander and Northern Kuril Islands. In the Atlantic Ocean, this species inhabits the waters off the coast of North America, extending southward to the Cape Cod Peninsula. These species are most commonly found in the southern Chukchi Sea, northern Bering Sea, and the northern and western parts of the Sea of Okhotsk. [details]
    Definitions

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LanguageName 
English concealed arctic chiton [from synonym]  [details]
German Arktische Löcher-Käferschnecke [from synonym]  [details]
Japanese オニヒゲヒザラガイ  [details]
To Barcode of Life (3 barcodes) (from synonym Amicula vestita (Broderip & G. B. Sowerby I, 1829))
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (44 publications) (from synonym Amicula vestita (Broderip & G. B. Sowerby I, 1829))
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (5 publications) 
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (5 publications) (from synonym Symmetrogephyrus vestitus (Broderip & G. B. Sowerby I, 1829))
To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL) 
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Amicula vestita) (from synonym Amicula vestita (Broderip & G. B. Sowerby I, 1829))
To GenBank (3 nucleotides; 2 proteins) (from synonym Chiton vestitus Broderip & G. B. Sowerby I, 1829)
To GenBank (3 nucleotides; 2 proteins) (from synonym Amicula vestita (Broderip & G. B. Sowerby I, 1829))
To Malacopics (Amicula vestita (Broderip & G. B. Sowerby I, 1829)) (from synonym Amicula vestita (Broderip & G. B. Sowerby I, 1829))
To The Arctic Traits Database (0 traits) (from synonym Amicula vestita (Broderip & G. B. Sowerby I, 1829))
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection (from synonym Amicula vestita (Broderip & G. B. Sowerby I, 1829))
To Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History (YPM IZ 093833) (from synonym Amicula vestita (Broderip & G. B. Sowerby I, 1829))
To ITIS
Unreviewed
Amicula - chiton
Amicula - chiton
Image from synonym
Amicula - underside of chiton
Amicula - underside of chiton
Image from synonym
To Malacopics (Amicula vestita (Broderip & G. B. Sowerby I, 1829))
To Malacopics (Amicula vestita (Broderip & G. B. Sowerby I, 1829))
Hosted externally, from synonym
To Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History (YPM IZ 093833)
To Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History (YPM IZ 093833)
Hosted externally, from synonym
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