African Register of Marine Species (AfReMaS) - Ischnochiton versicolor (G. B. Sowerby II, 1840)

AfReMaS taxon details

Ischnochiton versicolor (G. B. Sowerby II, 1840)

AphiaID

848023 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:848023)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Parent

Ischnochiton J. E. Gray, 1847

Original name

Chiton versicolor G. B. Sowerby II, 1840

Synonymised names

Callochiton platessa (A. A. Gould, 1846) · unaccepted (junior subjective synonym)

Ischnochiton (Ischnochiton) versicolor (G. B. Sowerby II, 1839) · alternative representation

Environment

marine

Original description

(of ) Sowerby, G. B. I; Sowerby, G. B. II. (1833-1840). Chiton. In: The Conchological Illustrations or, Coloured figures of all the hitherto unfigured recent shells. 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): 162, fig. 75 [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Ischnochiton versicolor (G. B. Sowerby II, 1840). Accessed through: Odido, M.; Appeltans, W.; BelHassen, M.; Mussai, P.; Nsiangango, S.E.; Vandepitte, L.; Wambiji, N.; Zamouri, N. Jiddou, A.M. (Eds) (2025) African Register of Marine Species at: https://marinespecies.org/afremas/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=848023 on 2025-12-24

Regional species database citation

Odido, M.; Appeltans, W.; BelHassen, M.; Mussai, P.; Nsiangango, S.E.; Vandepitte, L.; Wambiji, N.; Zamouri, N. Jiddou, A.M. (Eds) (2025). African Register of Marine Species. Ischnochiton versicolor (G. B. Sowerby II, 1840). Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/afremas/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=848023 on 2025-12-24

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2015-05-20 23:32:40Z

created

Marshall, Bruce

2019-08-15 22:36:10Z

changed

Marshall, Bruce

2019-09-15 20:02:55Z

changed

Marshall, Bruce

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original description (of ) Sowerby, G. B. I; Sowerby, G. B. II. (1833-1840). Chiton. In: The Conchological Illustrations or, Coloured figures of all the hitherto unfigured recent shells. 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): 162, fig. 75 [details]

Present

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

Definitions

To Biodiversity Heritage Library (21 publications) (from synonym Callochiton platessa (A. A. Gould, 1846))
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Ischnochiton versicolor)
To GenBank (8 nucleotides; 8 proteins)