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Acanthochitona fascicularis (Linnaeus, 1767) AphiaID: 138677 CHITON © Vasco Ferreira Facilmente confundível com: Acanthochitona crinita Quítone 1 Principais ameaças Sinónimos Acanthochites communis Risso, 1826 Acanthochites discrepans var. albina Dautzenberg & Durouchoux, 1900 Acanthochites discrepans var. violaceolimbata Dautzenberg & Durouchoux, 1906 Acanthochites hamatus Rochebrune, 1882 Acanthochiton communis (Risso, 1826) Acanthochiton communis var. barashi Leloup, 1969 Acanthochiton discrepans var. angustivalva Bergenhayn, 1931 Acanthochiton fascicularis Acanthochiton heterochaetus Bergenhayn, 1931 Acanthochitona communis (Risso, 1826) Anisochiton discrepans var. elongata Dautzenberg, 1893 Anisochiton discrepans var. marmorata Dautzenberg, 1893 Anisochiton discrepans var. nigrolineata Dautzenberg, 1893 Chiton echinotus Blainville, 1825 Chiton fascicularis Linnaeus, 1767 Chiton fascicularis var. major Philippi, 1836 Chiton fascicularis var. rubra Issel, 1870 Chiton fascicularis var. major Philippi, 1836 Chiton fascicularis var. rubra Issel, 1870 Chiton fascicularis var. rubra Issel, 1870 Chiton fascicularis var. rubra Issel, 1870 Referências original description Linnaeus C. (1767). Caroli Linnaei…Systema naturae per regna tria naturae: secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis.Editio duodecima. 1. Regnum Animale. 1 & 2Holmiae, Laurentii Salvii. Holmiae [Stockholm], Laurentii Salvii. pp. 1-532 [1766] pp. 533-1327 [1767]., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/83650#5 [details] 2 additional source Jones, A.M.; Baxter, J.M. (1987). Molluscs: Caudofoveata, Solenogastres, Polyplacophora and Scaphopoda: keys and notes for the identification of the species. Synopses of the British fauna (new series), 37. E.J. Brill; W. Backhuys: London, UK. ISBN 90-04-08197-6. vi, 154 pp. [details] basis of record Gofas, S.; Le Renard, J.; Bouchet, P. (2001). Mollusca. in: Costello, M.J. et al. (eds), European Register of Marine Species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Patrimoines Naturels. 50: 180-213. [details] additional source Muller, Y. (2004). Faune et flore du littoral du Nord, du Pas-de-Calais et de la Belgique: inventaire. [Coastal fauna and flora of the Nord, Pas-de-Calais and Belgium: inventory]. Commission Régionale de Biologie Région Nord Pas-de-Calais: France. 307 pp., available online at http://www.vliz.be/imisdocs/publications/145561.pdf [details] additional source Dell’Angelo B., Lesport J.F., Cluzaud A. & Sosso M. (2020). The Oligocene to Miocene chitons (Mollusca: Polyplacophora) of the Aquitaine Basin, soutwestern France, and Ligerian Basin, western France. Part 2: Lepidochitonidae, Tonicellidae, Acanthochitonidae, Cryptoplacidae and Additions to Part 1. Bollettino Malacologico. 56(1): 1-58. [details] Última atualização: 27 Nov. 2017 3.

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