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WoRMS name detailsPlaxiphora (Plaxiphora) aurata (Spalowsky, 1795)
 386380 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:386380)
alternative representation
Species
Chaetopleura ahnni Rochebrune, 1884 · unaccepted (junior subjective synonym)
Chaetopleura frigida Rochebrune, 1889 · unaccepted (junior subjective synonym)
Chaetopleura hahni Rochebrune, 1889 · unaccepted (junior subjective synonym)
Chaetopleura savatieri Rochebrune, 1881 · unaccepted (junior subjective synonym)
Chiton auratus Spalowsky, 1795 · unaccepted (superseded combination)
Chiton carmichaelis W. Wood, 1828 · unaccepted (junior subjective synonym)
Chiton frembleii Broderip, 1832 · unaccepted (junior subjective synonym)
Chiton setiger P. P. King, 1832 · unaccepted (junior subjective synonym)
Mopalia (Semimopalia) grisea Dall, 1919 · unaccepted (junior subjective synonym)
Mopalia grisea Dall, 1919 · unaccepted (junior subjective synonym)
Plaxiphora aucklandica Suter, 1909 · unaccepted (junior subjective synonym)
Plaxiphora campbelli Filhol, 1880 · unaccepted (junior subjective synonym)
Plaxiphora carpenteri Haddon, 1886 · unaccepted (junior subjective synonym)
Plaxiphora frigida (Rochebrune, 1889) · unaccepted (junior subjective synonym)
Plaxiphora setigera (P. P. King, 1832) · unaccepted (junior subjective synonym)
Plaxiphora simplex P. P. Carpenter, 1886 · unaccepted (junior subjective synonym)
Plaxiphora superba Pilsbry, 1892 · unaccepted (junior subjective synonym)
Tonicia atrata (G. B. Sowerby II, 1840) sensu F. W. Hutton, 1880 · unaccepted (misidentification)
Tonicia subatrata Pilsbry, 1893 · unaccepted (junior subjective synonym)
marine
(of Chiton auratus Spalowsky, 1795) Spalowsky, J. J. N. A. (1795). Prodromus in systema historicum testaceorum. Vorschmack einer vollständigen systematischen Geschichte der Schalthiergehäuse, Wien, printed by Ignaz Alberti's Wittwe. iv, 88 pp., pls 1-13., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/40430140
page(s): 88, pl. 13, figs. 6a-b [details]
Depth range intertidal to 25 m
Depth range intertidal to 25 m [details]
MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Plaxiphora (Plaxiphora) aurata (Spalowsky, 1795). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=386380 on 2025-05-23
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Nomenclatureoriginal description
(of Chiton auratus Spalowsky, 1795) Spalowsky, J. J. N. A. (1795). Prodromus in systema historicum testaceorum. Vorschmack einer vollständigen systematischen Geschichte der Schalthiergehäuse, Wien, printed by Ignaz Alberti's Wittwe. iv, 88 pp., pls 1-13., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/40430140 page(s): 88, pl. 13, figs. 6a-b [details] Taxonomyredescription
Kaas P. & Van Belle R. A. (1994). Monograph of living Chitons (Mollusca: Polyplacophora). Vol. 5. Suborder Ischnochitonina. Ischnochitonidae: Ischnochitoninae (concluded), Callistoplacinae; Mopaliidae. Additions to Volumes 1-4. <em>E. J. Brill, Leiden.</em> 402 pp. page(s): 266 [details] redescription Schwabe, E., Försterra, G., Häussermann, V., Melzer, R. R. & Schrödl, M. (2006). Chitons (Mollusca: Polyplacophora) from the southern Chilean Comau Fjord, with reinstatement of Tonicia calbucensis Plate, 1897. Zootaxa 1341: 1–27 page(s): 18 [details] Otheradditional source
Spencer, H.G., Marshall, B.A. & Willan, R.C. (2009). Checklist of New Zealand living Mollusca. Pp 196-219. <em>in: Gordon, D.P. (ed.) New Zealand inventory of biodiversity. Volume one. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia.</em> Canterbury University Press, Christchurch. [details]
additional source Sirenko, B.I. (2006). Report on the present state of our knowledge with regard to the chitons (Mollusca: Polyplacophora) of the Magellan Strait and Falkland Islands. Venus 65 (1-2): 81–89 page(s): 85 [details] Available for editors  [request]additional source Mannering, I. (1974). Taxonomic status of New Zealand populations of Plaxiphora aurata (Spalowsky) (Amphineura: Mopaliidae). New Zealand Journal of marine and freshwater Research 8 (3): 535–540 page(s): 538 [details]  Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
From editor or global species database
Depth range intertidal to 25 m [details]
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (10 publications) (from synonym Chiton carmichaelis W. Wood, 1828)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (10 publications) (from synonym Chaetopleura hahni Rochebrune, 1889) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (3 publications) (from synonym Chiton frembleii Broderip, 1832) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (57 publications) (from synonym Chiton setiger P. P. King, 1832) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (7 publications) (from synonym Chiton auratus Spalowsky, 1795) To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Tonicia atrata) (from synonym Tonicia atrata (G. B. Sowerby II, 1840) sensu F. W. Hutton, 1880) To GenBank (6 nucleotides; 4 proteins) (from synonym Chiton auratus Spalowsky, 1795) To MNHN Type collection (IM 2000-6116) (from synonym Chaetopleura savatieri Rochebrune, 1881) To MNHN Type collection (IM 2000-6163) (from synonym Chaetopleura ahnni Rochebrune, 1884) To NMNH Extant Collection (Mopalia (Semimopalia) grisea Holotype Dall, 1919 Holotype USNM 218734) (from synonym Mopalia grisea Dall, 1919) To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection |
