MolluscaBase taxon details
Chiton viridis L. Spengler, 1797
386788 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:386788)
accepted
Species
Chaetopleura reesi A. E. Salisbury, 1953 · unaccepted
Chiton (Chiton) viridis L. Spengler, 1797 · alternative representation
Chiton (Lophyrus) gemmulatus Shuttleworth, 1853 · unaccepted (junior subjective synonym)
Chiton costatus C. B. Adams, 1845 · unaccepted (junior synonym)
Chiton foveolatus G. B. Sowerby II, 1839 · unaccepted
Chiton luteolus W. Wood, 1828 · unaccepted
Chiton miltoplax Rehder, 1932 · unaccepted > nomen nudum
marine
Spengler, L. (1797). Udförlig beskrivelse over det mangeskkallede konkylie-slaegt, af Linneus kaldet Chiton med endeel nye arter og varieteter. <em>Skrifter af Naturhistorie-Selskabet.</em> 4: 62-103 pl. 6., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/58273821
page(s): 70 [details]
page(s): 70 [details]
MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Chiton viridis Spengler, 1797. Accessed at: https://www.molluscabase.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=386788 on 2025-09-11
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original description
Spengler, L. (1797). Udförlig beskrivelse over det mangeskkallede konkylie-slaegt, af Linneus kaldet Chiton med endeel nye arter og varieteter. <em>Skrifter af Naturhistorie-Selskabet.</em> 4: 62-103 pl. 6., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/58273821
page(s): 70 [details]
original description (of Chiton foveolatus G. B. Sowerby II, 1839) Sowerby, G. B. I; Sowerby, G. B. II. (1833-1840). <i>Chiton</i>. In: <i>The Conchological Illustrations or, Coloured figures of all the hitherto unfigured recent shells</i>. London, privately published. Parts 38-45, figs 1-55 [1833 (-1834?)] [G.B. Sowerby II]; 159-160, figs 56-67 [1839] [G.B. Sowerby I]; 161-176, figs 68-155 [1839-1840] [G.B. Sowerby II]. Catalogue and index, 10 pp + 7 pp. [Descriptive catalogue of British chitones] [1840]. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/11915761
page(s): 159 [details]
original description (of Chiton (Lophyrus) gemmulatus Shuttleworth, 1853) Shuttleworth, R. J. (1853). Über den Bau der Chitoniden, mit Aufzählung der die Antillen und die Canarischen Inseln bewohnenden Arten. <em>Mittheilungen der Naturforschenden Gesellschaft Bern.</em> (1853): 169-207., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/11256889
page(s): 199 [details]
original description (of Chiton luteolus W. Wood, 1828) Wood, W. (1828). <i>Supplement to the Index Testaceologicus; or A catalogue of shells, British and foreign</i>. Richard Taylor, London. iv [+1] + 59 pp., plates 1-8. , available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/22991199
page(s): pl. 1, fig. 3 [details]
original description (of Chiton miltoplax Rehder, 1932) Rehder, H. A. (1932). <em>The Nautilus.</em> 45: pl. 10, figs, 4, 5. [details]
original description (of Chaetopleura reesi A. E. Salisbury, 1953) Salisbury, A. E. (1953). Mollusca of the University of Oxford expedition to the Cayman Islands in 1938. <em>Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London.</em> 30: 39-54.
page(s): 41 [details]
original description (of Chiton viridis var. rubrocarinatus Nowell-Usticke, 1959) Nowell-Usticke, G.W. (1959) A Check List of the Marine Shells of St. Croix U. S. Virgin Islands with Random Annotations. G.W. Nowell-Usticke, St. Croix, 90 pp., 4 pls. [details]
original description (of Chiton costatus C. B. Adams, 1845) Adams, C. B. (1845). Specierum novarum conchyliorum, in Jamaica repertorum, synopsis. <em>Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History.</em> 2: 1-17., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/9490685
page(s): 8 [details]
context source (Bermuda) Jensen, R. H. (1997). A Checklist and Bibliography of the Marine Molluscs of Bermuda. Unp. , 547 pp [details]
basis of record Lyons, W. G. & Moretzsohn, F. (2009). Polyplacophora (Mollusca) of the Gulf of Mexico. <em>Gulf of Mexico-Origins, Waters, and Biota.</em> 569-578. [details]
page(s): 70 [details]
original description (of Chiton foveolatus G. B. Sowerby II, 1839) Sowerby, G. B. I; Sowerby, G. B. II. (1833-1840). <i>Chiton</i>. In: <i>The Conchological Illustrations or, Coloured figures of all the hitherto unfigured recent shells</i>. London, privately published. Parts 38-45, figs 1-55 [1833 (-1834?)] [G.B. Sowerby II]; 159-160, figs 56-67 [1839] [G.B. Sowerby I]; 161-176, figs 68-155 [1839-1840] [G.B. Sowerby II]. Catalogue and index, 10 pp + 7 pp. [Descriptive catalogue of British chitones] [1840]. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/11915761
page(s): 159 [details]
original description (of Chiton (Lophyrus) gemmulatus Shuttleworth, 1853) Shuttleworth, R. J. (1853). Über den Bau der Chitoniden, mit Aufzählung der die Antillen und die Canarischen Inseln bewohnenden Arten. <em>Mittheilungen der Naturforschenden Gesellschaft Bern.</em> (1853): 169-207., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/11256889
page(s): 199 [details]
original description (of Chiton luteolus W. Wood, 1828) Wood, W. (1828). <i>Supplement to the Index Testaceologicus; or A catalogue of shells, British and foreign</i>. Richard Taylor, London. iv [+1] + 59 pp., plates 1-8. , available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/22991199
page(s): pl. 1, fig. 3 [details]
original description (of Chiton miltoplax Rehder, 1932) Rehder, H. A. (1932). <em>The Nautilus.</em> 45: pl. 10, figs, 4, 5. [details]
original description (of Chaetopleura reesi A. E. Salisbury, 1953) Salisbury, A. E. (1953). Mollusca of the University of Oxford expedition to the Cayman Islands in 1938. <em>Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London.</em> 30: 39-54.
page(s): 41 [details]
original description (of Chiton viridis var. rubrocarinatus Nowell-Usticke, 1959) Nowell-Usticke, G.W. (1959) A Check List of the Marine Shells of St. Croix U. S. Virgin Islands with Random Annotations. G.W. Nowell-Usticke, St. Croix, 90 pp., 4 pls. [details]
original description (of Chiton costatus C. B. Adams, 1845) Adams, C. B. (1845). Specierum novarum conchyliorum, in Jamaica repertorum, synopsis. <em>Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History.</em> 2: 1-17., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/9490685
page(s): 8 [details]
context source (Bermuda) Jensen, R. H. (1997). A Checklist and Bibliography of the Marine Molluscs of Bermuda. Unp. , 547 pp [details]
basis of record Lyons, W. G. & Moretzsohn, F. (2009). Polyplacophora (Mollusca) of the Gulf of Mexico. <em>Gulf of Mexico-Origins, Waters, and Biota.</em> 569-578. [details]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
To Malacopics (Chiton viridis Spengler, 1797 Mexico, Quintana Roo, Isla Mujeres, on rocks at low tide, collected February 1994, ex coll. J.Ph. Voorwinde)
To Malacopics (Chiton viridis Spengler, 1797 Netherlands Antilles, Bonaire, Kralendijke)
To ITIS
To Malacopics (Chiton viridis Spengler, 1797 Netherlands Antilles, Bonaire, Kralendijke)
To ITIS
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