Acanthochitona

Acanthochitona Temporal range: Oligocene–Recent[1] PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Acanthochitona venezuelana, Florida Middle Grounds, 28°35.0'N, 84°14.9'W, 31 m, 19 May 1977.
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Polyplacophora
Order:	Chitonida
Family:	Acanthochitonidae
Genus:	Acanthochitona Gray, 1821
Species
See text.

Acanthochitona is a genus of chitons in the family Acanthochitonidae, of worldwide distribution.

Species[]

According to the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS), species in the genus Acanthochitona include ^[2]

• (Gould, 1859)
• Watters, 1981
• W. H. Dall, 1919
• (Hedley & Hull, 1912)
• (Pease, 1872)
• (Carpenter, 1857)
• (Reeve, 1847)
• (Carpenter, 1857)
• Pilsbry MS, Abbott, 1954 – slender glass-hair chiton
• Acanthochitona bednalli (Pilsbry, 1894)
• (Nierstrasz, 1905)
• (Pilsbry, 1893)
• (de Rochebrune, 1881)
• Ashby, 1926
• Righi, 1971
• Clark, 2000
• Hong, Dell'Angelo & Van Belle, 1990
• (A. Adams & Reeve MS, Reeve, 1847)
• Righi, 1971
• Hull, 1924
• (Pilsbry, 1894)
• Acanthochitona crinita (Pennant, 1777)
  • Acanthochitona crinita crinita (Pennant, 1777)
  • Acanthochitona crinita oblonga Leloup, 1981
• (Tapparone Canefri, 1874)
• (Brown, 1827)
• Is. & Iw. Taki, 1931
• (Pilsbry, 1893)
• Acanthochitona fascicularis (Linnaeus, 1767)
• Lyons, 1988
• Acanthochitona garnoti (de Blainville, 1825)
• Ashby, 1919
• (Pilsbry, 1894)
• (Pilsbry, 1893) – red glass-hair chiton
• • Acanthochitona hirudiniformis hirudiniformis (Sowerby in Broderip & Sowerby, 1832)
  • Acanthochitona hirudiniformis peruviana Leloup, 1941
• Watters, 1981
• (Nierstrasz, 1905)
• (de Rochebrune, 1881)
• (de Rochebrune, 1882)
• Kaas, 1979
• (Torr, 1912)
• (Leloup, 1933)
• Kaas, 1986
• Lyons, 1988
• Ashby, 1924
• Winckworth, 1927
• Leloup MS, Strack, 1989
• Leloup, 1980
• Leloup, 1941
• Mackay, 1929
• Winckworth, 1933
• (Deshayes, 1863)
• (Sykes, 1896)
• (Pilsbry, 1893) – striate glass-hair chiton
• Leloup, 1981
• (Pilsbry, 1894)
• (Pilsbry, 1893)
• Lyons, 1988
• (Lischke, 1873)
• Gowlett & Zeidler, 1987
• (A. Adams & Reeve MS, Reeve, 1847)
• Ferreira, 1987
• Ashby, 1922
• (Thiele, 1909)
• Leloup, 1941
• (de Blainville, 1825)
• Guerra Júnior, 1983
• Ashby, 1924
• Acanthochitona thileniusi Lyons, 1988
• (Nierstrasz, 1906)
• Lyons, 1988
• (Pease, 1872)
• Kaas & Van Belle, 1988
• Lyons, 1988
• Lyons, 1988
• Acanthochitona zelandica (Quoy and Gaimard, 1835)

References[]

• "Acanthochitona". Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
• Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1