Acanthochitona achates ( Gould, 1859 )

Sirenko, Boris I. & Zhang, Junlong, 2019, Chitons (Mollusca: Polyplacophora) of Hainan Island and vicinity, South China Sea, Zootaxa 4564 (1), pp. 1-40 : 29

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scientific name	Acanthochitona achates ( Gould, 1859 )
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Acanthochitona achates ( Gould, 1859) View in CoL

Chiton (Acanthochaetes) achates Gould 1859: 165 .

Acanthochiton sagamicus Bergenhayn 1933: 43 View in CoL , pl. 1, fig. 14.

Acanthochiton achates ; Is. Taki 1938: 360 –362, pl. 15, fig. 2, pl. 23, figs 7–11, pl. 24, figs 3–7; Xu 2008: 458.

Acanthochitona achates View in CoL ; Kaas & Van Belle 1980: 1; 1998: 11; Saito 1995: 109; 1998: 161; 2000a: 23, pl. 11, fig. 9; 2000b: 102; 2001: 200, fig. 17; 2006: 217; Slieker 2000: 100, pl. 38, fig. 26; Sirenko & Saito 2017: 475 View Cited Treatment , figs 21–23, 44A.

Notoplax doederleini View in CoL ; Bullock & Harper 1994: 46, pls. 13C, 14B, 15D–F, 16C–D (non Notoplax doederleini Thiele, 1909 View in CoL ).

Type material. Lectotype MCZ 169031 About MCZ .

Type locality. Kikaia and Hakodadi (= Hakodate) Bay, Hokkaido, Japan

Distribution. Japanese coast from southern Hokkaido to Okinawa Island; Korean coast; East China Sea Coast of China; South China Sea, Hong Kong, northern Vietnam, intertidal.

Remarks. Bullock & Harper (1994) reported this species from Hong Kong for the first time, but they identified it as Notoplax doederleini ( Thiele, 1909) . Their good description and figures show that their identification was erroneous.

References

Bergenhayn, J. R. M. (1933) Die Loricaten von Prof. Dr. Sixten Bocks Expedition nach Japan und den Bonin-Inseln 1914. Kungliga Svenska Vetenskapsakademiens Handlingar, 12, l- 58.

Bullock, R. C. & Harper, K. D. (1994) The Polyplacophora of Cape d'Aguilar, Hong Kong. In: Morton, B. (Ed.), The Malacofauna of Hong Kong and Southern China III. Hong Kong University Press, Hong Kong, pp. 3 - 54.

Gould, A. A. (1859) Descriptions of shells, collected by the North Pacific Exploring Expedition. Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History, 7, 161 - 165. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. part. 4821

Kaas, P. & Van Belle, R. A. (1980) Catalogue of Living Chitons. W. Backhuys. Rotterdam, 144 pp.

Saito, H. (1995) The chiton fauna of Onagawa Bay, northeastern Honshu, Japan. Memoir of the National Science Museum, Tokyo, 28, 99 - 112.

Sirenko, B. I. & Saito, H. (2017) New species of chitons of the superfamily Cryptoplacoidea (Mollusca: Polyplacophora) from Vietnamese waters. Zootaxa, 4299, 451 - 506.

Slieker, F. J. A. (2000) Chitons of the world. An illustrated synopsis of recent Polyplacophora. L'Informatore Piceno Ed., Ancona, vi + 154 pp.

Taki, Is. (1938) Report on the biological survey of Mutsu Bay. 31. Studies on chitons of Mutsu Bay with general discussion on chitons of Japan. Science Reports of Tohoku Imperial Universit y, Series 4, Biology, 12, 323 - 423.

Thiele, J. (1909) Revision des Systems der Chitonen. Teil. 1. Zoologica, 22, 1 - 132, figs. A-E, pls. 1 - 10.

Xu, F. (2008) Class Polyplacophora Blainville, 1867. In: Liu, R. (Ed.), Checklist of marine biota of China seas, pp. 456 - 459.

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Taxonomy

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Mollusca
Class	Polyplacophora
SubClass	Neoloricata
Order	Chitonida
SubOrder	Acanthochitonina
Family	Acanthochitonidae
SubFamily	Acanthochitoninae
Genus	Acanthochitona