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Acanthochitona Gray 1821

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Genus Acanthochitona Gray 1821

Type species. Chiton fascicularis Linnaeus, 1767, by monotypy.

Distribution. Almost worldwide except polar waters. The fossil record extends back to the Miocene of the Mediterranean Basin (Dell’Angelo et al. 2016, 2018a, b), Paratethys (Šulc 1934; Bałuk 1984), West Pacific Islands (Ladd 1966), and Australia (Cotton 1964).

Notes

Published as part of Dell'Angelo, Bruno, Landau, Bernard M., Sosso, Maurizio & Taviani, Marco, 2020, Late Pleistocene Red Sea Mollusca: 1. Polyplacophora, pp. 401-449 in Zootaxa 4772 (3) on page 430, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4772.3.1, http://zenodo.org/record/3819654

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http://treatment.plazi.org/id/03D21D39FFAF3944FF7BFF2AFD81DF6B

Is part of
Journal article: 10.11646/zootaxa.4772.3.1 (DOI)
Journal article: http://zenodo.org/record/3819654 (URL)
Journal article: http://publication.plazi.org/id/FFEB6541FFB23959FFECFFB3FFF0DE03 (URL)
Journal article: http://zoobank.org/F546A223-59A0-4DA1-9102-AD7BC482105F (URL)
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https://biodiversitypmc.sibils.org/collections/plazi/03D21D39FFAF3944FF7BFF2AFD81DF6B (URL)
https://www.gbif.org/species/164035845 (URL)
https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/22261/taxon/03D21D39FFAF3944FF7BFF2AFD81DF6B.taxon (URL)

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Gray
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Mollusca
Order
Chitonida
Family
Acanthochitonidae
Genus
Acanthochitona
Taxon rank
genus
Taxonomic concept label
Acanthochitona Gray, 1821 sec. Dell'Angelo, Landau, Sosso & Taviani, 2020

References

  • Gray, J. E. (1821) A natural arrangement of Mollusca, according to their internal structure. The London Medical Repository, 15, 229 - 239.
  • Linnaeus, C. (1767) " Vermes Testacea ". In: Systema Naturae. Editio duodecima, reformata. 1 (2). L. Salvii, Holmiae, pp. 533 - 1327.
  • Dell'Angelo, B., Giuntelli, P., Sosso, M. & Zunino, M. (2016) Polyplacophora from the Miocene of North Italy. Part 2: Callochitonidae, Chitonidae, Lepidochitonidae, Acanthochitonidae and Cryptoplacidae. Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia, 122, 23 - 54.
  • Dell'Angelo, B., Lesport, J. - F., Cluzaud, A. & Sosso, M. (2018 a) The Oligocene to Miocene chitons (Mollusca: Polyplacophora) of the Aquitaine Basin, southwestern France, and Ligerian Basin, western France. Part 1: Leptochitonidae, Hanleyidae, Ischnochitonidae, Chitonidae, Spinochitonidae fam. nov. and Schizochitonidae. Bollettino Malacologico, 54, 1 - 47.
  • Sulc, J. (1934) Studien uber die fossilen Chitonen. I. Die fossilen Chitonen im Neogen des Wiener Beckens und der angrenzenden Gebiete. Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien, 47, 1 - 31, pls. 1 - 2.
  • Baluk, W. (1984) Additional data on chitons and cuttlefish from the Korytnica clays (Middle Miocene; Holy Cross Mountains, Central Poland). Acta Geologica Polonica, 34, 281 - 297, pls. 1 - 17.
  • Ladd, H. S. (1966) Chitons and Gastropods (Haliotidae through Adeorbidae) from the western Pacific islands. Geological Survey Professional Paper, 531, 1 - 98, 16 pls. https: // doi. org / 10.3133 / pp 531
  • Cotton, B. C. (1964) South Australian Mollusca. Chitons. Handbook of the Flora and Fauna of South Australia, Adelaide, 151 pp