Acanthopleura
Wikipedia on Answers.com:
Top
Acanthopleura
| Acanthopleura | |
|---|---|
 |
|
| A mounted specimen of Acanthopleura spinosa, anterior end to the left | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Subkingdom: | Metazoa |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Polyplacophora |
| Order: | Chitonida |
| Family: | Chitonidae |
| Genus: | Acanthopleura Guilding, 1829 |
| Species | |
|
8, see text. |
|
Acanthopleura is a genus of chitons in the family Chitonidae. In this genus the girdle is spiny or spiky. It has eight described species at present.
|
Contents
|
Species
According to the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS), species in the genus Acanthopleura include [1]
- Acanthopleura brevispinosa (Sowerby, 1840)
- Acanthopleura echinata (Barnes, 1824)
- Acanthopleura gemmata (de Blainville, 1825)
- Acanthopleura granulata (Gmelin, 1791)
- Acanthopleura loochooana (Broderip & Sowerby, 1829)
- Acanthopleura planispina Bergenhayn, 1933
- Acanthopleura spinosa (Bruguiere, 1792)
- Acanthopleura vaillantii de Rochebrune, 1882
- Acanthopleura hirtosa
- Acanthopleura gaimardi Blainville 1825
References
External links
 |
Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Acanthopleura |
 |
Wikispecies has information related to: Acanthopleura |
Videos
 |
This Chitonida-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
This entry is from Wikipedia, the leading user-contributed encyclopedia. It may not have been reviewed by professional editors (see full disclaimer)
Post a question - any question - to the WikiAnswers community:
Copyrights:
Wikipedia on Answers.com
This article is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article Acanthopleura.
Read more