Deep-Sea name details
Lepidopleurus arcticus G. O. Sars, 1878
152715 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:152715)
unaccepted > superseded combination
Species
marine, fresh, terrestrial
Sars, G. O. (1878). Bidrag til Kundskaben om Norges arktiske Fauna. I. Mollusca Regionis Arcticae Norvegiae. Oversigt over de i Norges arktiske Region Forekommende Bløddyr. Brøgger, Christiania, xiii + 466 pp., pls 1-34 & I-XVIII., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/92496 [details]
MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Lepidopleurus arcticus G. O. Sars, 1878. Accessed through: Glover, A.G.; Higgs, N.; Horton, T. (2025) World Register of Deep-Sea species (WoRDSS) at: https://marinespecies.org/deepsea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=152715 on 2026-05-08
Glover, A.G.; Higgs, N.; Horton, T. (2026). World Register of Deep-Sea species (WoRDSS). Lepidopleurus arcticus G. O. Sars, 1878. Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/Deepsea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=152715 on 2026-05-08
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original description
Sars, G. O. (1878). Bidrag til Kundskaben om Norges arktiske Fauna. I. Mollusca Regionis Arcticae Norvegiae. Oversigt over de i Norges arktiske Region Forekommende Bløddyr. Brøgger, Christiania, xiii + 466 pp., pls 1-34 & I-XVIII., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/92496 [details]
context source (Deepsea) Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]
basis of record Kaas, P.; Van Belle, R.A. (1980). Catalogue of living chitons (Mollusca: Polyplacophora). Backhuys: Rotterdam, The Netherlands. ISBN 90-6279-013-5. 144 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details]
additional source Bousfield, E.L. 1960. Canadian Atlantic sea shells. National Museum of Canada, Ottawa. 72 p. [details]
additional source Mayhew, R.; Cole, F. (1995). A taxonomic discussion and update of shell-bearing marine molluscs recorded from NW Atlantic North of Cape Cod (excluding Greenland), and Canadian Arctic Archipeligo. <em>Of Sea and Shore.</em> 18(2): 99-116., available online at https://www.conchology.be/?t=8004&year=1995&volume=18&volumeno=2&ofsea=12667 [details] Available for editors
source of synonymy Kaas, P.; Van Belle, R.A. (1980). Catalogue of living chitons (Mollusca: Polyplacophora). Backhuys: Rotterdam, The Netherlands. ISBN 90-6279-013-5. 144 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details]
context source (Deepsea) Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]
basis of record Kaas, P.; Van Belle, R.A. (1980). Catalogue of living chitons (Mollusca: Polyplacophora). Backhuys: Rotterdam, The Netherlands. ISBN 90-6279-013-5. 144 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details]
additional source Bousfield, E.L. 1960. Canadian Atlantic sea shells. National Museum of Canada, Ottawa. 72 p. [details]
additional source Mayhew, R.; Cole, F. (1995). A taxonomic discussion and update of shell-bearing marine molluscs recorded from NW Atlantic North of Cape Cod (excluding Greenland), and Canadian Arctic Archipeligo. <em>Of Sea and Shore.</em> 18(2): 99-116., available online at https://www.conchology.be/?t=8004&year=1995&volume=18&volumeno=2&ofsea=12667 [details] Available for editors
source of synonymy Kaas, P.; Van Belle, R.A. (1980). Catalogue of living chitons (Mollusca: Polyplacophora). Backhuys: Rotterdam, The Netherlands. ISBN 90-6279-013-5. 144 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
Unreviewed
Synonymy Many authors have treated L. arcticus as a synonym of Leptochiton asellus (Gmelin, 1791); others conbsidered it as a deep-sea form of L. asellus. Recent trend is to treat it as a separate species. However, the two species are definitely closely related, and it is not always possible to know which species is referred to in the literature. [details]
