Molluscabase - Acanthopleura gemmata (Blainville, 1825)

the nominal species is a synonym of Acanthopleura gemmata; W Indian Ocean records refer to A. testudo; Red Sea records to A. vaillantii (see Kaas et al. 2006)

Acanthozostera virens Ang, 1967 · unaccepted

Chiton gemmatus Blainville, 1825 · unaccepted (original combination)

Chiton macgillivrayi A. Adams, 1855 · unaccepted (junior synonym)

Chiton spiniger G. B. Sowerby II, 1839 · unaccepted

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Subspecies Acanthopleura gemmata maudensis Ashby, 1928 accepted as Acanthopleura gemmata (Blainville, 1825)
Subspecies Acanthopleura gemmata queenslandica Ashby, 1923 accepted as Acanthopleura gemmata (Blainville, 1825)

Environment

marine

Original description

(of Chiton gemmatus Blainville, 1825) Blainville, H. M. D. de. (1825). Oscabrion, Chiton, pp. 519-555, in: Dictionnaire des Sciences Naturelles (F. Cuvier, ed.), vol. 36. Levrault, Strasbourg & Paris, & Le Normant, Paris. , available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/25305184
page(s): 544 [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2024). MolluscaBase. Acanthopleura gemmata (Blainville, 1825). Accessed at: https://www.molluscabase.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=211919 on 2024-04-19

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

1998-04-27 14:26:43Z

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Vanden Berghe, Edward

2000-09-13 07:19:12Z

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Garcia, Maria

2006-05-05 13:30:38Z

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Vanden Berghe, Edward

2009-03-23 08:24:45Z

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Schwabe, Enrico

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original description (of Chiton gemmatus Blainville, 1825) Blainville, H. M. D. de. (1825). Oscabrion, Chiton, pp. 519-555, in: Dictionnaire des Sciences Naturelles (F. Cuvier, ed.), vol. 36. Levrault, Strasbourg & Paris, & Le Normant, Paris. , available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/25305184
page(s): 544 [details]

original description (of Chiton spiniger G. B. Sowerby II, 1839) Sowerby, G. B. I; Sowerby, G. B. II. (1832-1841). The conchological illustrations or, Coloured figures of all the hitherto unfigured recent shells. London, privately published. , available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/109863
page(s): pl. 161, fig. 68. [details]

original description (of Acanthopleura balansae Rochebrune, 1882) Rochebrune, A.T. (1882). Diagnoses d'espèces nouvelles de la famille des Chitonidae. (Premier supplément). Bulletin de la Société Philomatique de Paris. ser. 7, 6: 190–197., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/31660978
page(s): 197 [details]

original description (of Acanthopleura bergenhayni Leloup, 1937) Leloup, E. (1937). Diagnoses de six nouvelles especes d'amphineures polyplacophores de la region Indo-Pacifique. Bulletin du Musee Royal d'Histoire Naturelle de Belgique. 13 (38): 1-3.
page(s): 3 [details]

original description (of Acanthopleura rawakiana Rochebrune, 1882) Rochebrune, A.T. (1882). Diagnoses d'espèces nouvelles de la famille des Chitonidae. (Premier supplément). Bulletin de la Société Philomatique de Paris. ser. 7, 6: 190–197., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/31660978
page(s): 195 [details]

original description (of Acanthopleura gemmata queenslandica Ashby, 1923) Ashby, E. (1922). Notes on the Australian representatives of the genus Acanthopleura, Guilding, together with a description of Polyplacophora in the Western Australian Museum. Journal and proceedings of the Royal Society of Western Australia. 8: 29-34., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/46126010 [details]

original description (of Acanthopleura gemmata maudensis Ashby, 1928) Ashby, E. (1928). Notes on a collection of chitons (Polyplacophora) from the Capricorn Group, Queensland. Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of South Australia. 52: 167-173, pl. 12., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/41570547 [details]

original description (of Acanthozostera virens Ang, 1967) Ang, E. Z. (1967). Loricates of the Philippines. Natural and applied Science Bulletin of the University of the Philippines. 20: 383–464. [details]

original description (of Acanthopleura glareosa E. A. Smith, 1884) Smith, E. A. (1884). Mollusca. pp. 34-116; 487-508 in: Report on the zoological collections made in the Indo-Pacific Ocean during the voyage of H. M. S. Alert 1881-2. Part I. The collections from Melanesia; Part II. Collections from the western Indian Ocean. London: The Trustees [of the British Museum (Natural History)]. xxv, 684 pp., 54 plates. , available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/63054
page(s): 81 [details]

original description (of Chiton macgillivrayi A. Adams, 1855) Adams, A. (1855). Description of two new genera and several new species of Mollusca, from the collection of Hugh Cuming, Esq. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. (1855) 23: 119-124., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/30748012
page(s): 120. [details]

context source (Introduced species) Katsanevakis, S.; Bogucarskis, K.; Gatto, F.; Vandekerkhove, J.; Deriu, I.; Cardoso A.S. (2012). Building the European Alien Species Information Network (EASIN): a novel approach for the exploration of distributed alien species data. BioInvasions Records. 1: 235-245., available online at http://easin.jrc.ec.europa.eu [details] Available for editors

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basis of record Richmond, M. (Ed.) (1997). A guide to the seashores of Eastern Africa and the Western Indian Ocean islands. Sida/Department for Research Cooperation, SAREC: Stockholm, Sweden. ISBN 91-630-4594-X. 448 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details]

additional source Kaas P., Van Belle R.A. & Strack H. 2006. Monograph of living chitons (Mollusca: Polyplacaphora); volume 6: Suborder Ischnochitonina (concluded); Schizochitonidae & Chitonidae, additions to volumes 1-5. Brill, Leiden, 464 pp. [details]

additional source Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). Checklist of marine biota of China seas. China Science Press. 1267 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors

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additional source Zenetos, A.; Gofas, S.; Verlaque, M.; Cinar, M.; Garcia Raso, J.; Bianchi, C.; Morri, C.; Azzurro, E.; Bilecenoglu, M.; Froglia, C.; Siokou, I.; Violanti, D.; Sfriso, A.; San Martin, G.; Giangrande, A.; Katagan, T.; Ballesteros, E.; Ramos-Espla, A.; Mastrototaro, F.; Ocana, O.; Zingone, A.; Gambi, M.; Streftaris, N. (2010). Alien species in the Mediterranean Sea by 2010. A contribution to the application of European Union's Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD). Part I. Spatial distribution. Mediterranean Marine Science. 11(2): 381-493., available online at https://doi.org/10.12681/mms.87 [details]

additional source Dell'Angelo, B.; Bonfitto, A.; Sabelli, B. & Taviani, M. (2004). Chitons (Mollusca, Polyplacophora) from bioclastic sands of the Ifaty-Tuléar back reefs (Madagascar, Western Indian Ocean). Bollettino Malacologico, Supplemento. 5: 45-62.
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additional source Zenetos, A.; Meriç, E.; Verlaque, M.; Galli, P.; Boudouresque, C.-F.; Giangrande, A.; Cinar, M.; Bilecenoglu, M. (2008). Additions to the annotated list of marine alien biota in the Mediterranean with special emphasis on Foraminifera and Parasites. Mediterranean Marine Science. 9(1): 119-165., available online at https://doi.org/10.12681/mms.146 [details] Available for editors

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additional source Ferreira A.J. (1987). The chiton fauna of the Marquesas, with the description of a new species of Plaxiphora (Mollusca: Polyplacophora). Monitore Zoologico Italiano. new ser., suppl. 22: 177-191., available online at http:// https://doi.org/10.1080/03749444.1987.10736727
page(s): 188 [details] Available for editors

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additional source Yoshioka, E.; Fujitani, E. (2006). Activity and Homing Behavior of Two Species of Acanthopleura (Mollusca: Polyplacophora) on a Subtropical Shore in Japan. Venus (Journal of the Malacological Society of Japan). 65 (1-2): 123-139. [details] Available for editors

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additional source Yoshioka, E.; Ikebe, Y.; Fujitani, E.; Okuda, N. (1999). Distribution of Acanthopleura spp. (Polyplacophora:Chitonidae) in the western part of Iriomote Island, Aragusuku and Kuroshima Islands, Okinawa. Venus (Journal of the Malacological Society of Japan). 58 (2): 79-82. [details] Available for editors

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additional source Yoshioka, E. (1997). Distribution of Acanthopleura spp. (Polyplacophora: Chitonidae) in Iriomote, Ishigaki and Miyako Islands, Okinawa. Venus (Journal of the Malacological Society of Japan). 56 (3): 253-257. [details] Available for editors

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additional source Yoshioka, E.; Nakashima, Y. (1996). Distribution of Four Species of Acanthopteura (Polyplacophora: Chitonidae) in Sesoko Island, Okinawa. Venus (Journal of the Malacological Society of Japan). 55 (1): 41-49. [details] Available for editors

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additional source Yoshioka, E. ; Fuse, T. (1993). Egg Morphology of Three Chitons from Okinawa. VENUS (The Japanese Journals of Malacology). 52（2）:161− 165. [details]

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Introduced species vector dispersal in Libyan part of the Mediterranean Sea - Eastern Basin : Canals: natural range expansion through man-made canals [details]