MarBEF Data System - ERMS - Tonicia atrata (G. B. Sowerby II, 1839)

WoRMS name details

Tonicia atrata (G. B. Sowerby II, 1839)

To NHMUK collection (Chiton atratus Sowerby, 1839; SYNTYPE(S); NHMUK:ecatalogue:3509603)

AphiaID

386327 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:386327)

Classification

Status

unaccepted > junior subjective synonym

Accepted name

Tonicia chilensis (Frembly, 1827)

Rank

Species

Parent

Tonicia Gray, 1840

Original name

Chiton atratus G. B. Sowerby II, 1839

Synonymised names

Chiton atratus G. B. Sowerby II, 1839 · unaccepted (original combination)

Chiton fastigiatus G. B. Sowerby I, 1833 · unaccepted

Chiton incompletus Fischer von Waldheim, 1807 · unaccepted

Tonicia boetica Pilsbry, 1893 · unaccepted

Tonicia fastigiata (G. B. Sowerby II, 1840) · unaccepted

Environment

marine, ~~brackish~~, ~~fresh~~, ~~terrestrial~~

Original description

(of Chiton atratus G. B. Sowerby II, 1839) 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): 159, figs 57, 58 [details]

Type data

Type locality contained in Falkland Islands Exclusive Economic Zone

type locality contained in Falkland Islands Exclusive Economic Zone [from synonym] [view taxon] [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Tonicia atrata (G. B. Sowerby II, 1839). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=386327 on 2025-05-10

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2009-03-23 07:54:34Z

created

Schwabe, Enrico

2009-03-23 08:24:45Z

changed

Schwabe, Enrico

2014-04-22 07:56:44Z

changed

Sartori, André F.

2015-12-08 11:50:46Z

changed

Gofas, Serge

2023-03-07 11:53:26Z

changed

Bouchet, Philippe

Licensing

The webpage text is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License

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Nomenclature

original description (of Chiton atratus G. B. Sowerby II, 1839) 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): 159, figs 57, 58 [details]

Taxonomy

source of synonymy Ibáñez, C. M., Eernisse, D. J., Méndez, M. A., Valladares, M., Sellanes, J., Sirenko, B. I. & Pardo-Gandarillas, M. C. (2019). Phylogeny, divergence times and species delimitation of Tonicia (Polyplacophora: Chitonidae) from the eastern Pacific Ocean. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 186: 915-933. [details] Available for editors