MarBEF Data System - ERMS - Rhyssoplax corallina (Risso, 1826)

ERMS taxon details

Rhyssoplax corallina (Risso, 1826)

corallinus_6-valved

AphiaID

1288184 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1288184)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Parent

Rhyssoplax Thiele, 1893

Original name

Lepidopleurus corallinus Risso, 1826

Synonymised names

Chiton (Rhyssoplax) corallinus (Risso, 1826) · unaccepted

Chiton corallinus (Risso, 1826) · unaccepted

Chiton freelandi Forbes, 1844 · unaccepted (dubious synonym)

Chiton philippii Issel, 1870 · unaccepted (synonym)

Chiton pulchellus R. A. Philippi, 1844 · unaccepted > junior homonym (junior homonym of Chiton...)

junior homonym of Chiton pulchellus Gray, 1828

Chiton rubellus Pilsbry, 1893 · unaccepted (synonym)

Chiton rubicundus O. G. Costa, 1830 · unaccepted

Lepidopleurus corallinus Risso, 1826 · unaccepted (original combination)

Environment

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

Fossil range

recent + fossil

Original description

(of Lepidopleurus corallinus Risso, 1826) Risso, A. (1826-1827). Histoire naturelle des principales productions de l'Europe Méridionale et particulièrement de celles des environs de Nice et des Alpes Maritimes. [book series]. 400 pp., 13 pls. [volumes 1-5. Paris, F.G. Levrault. vol. 3. Mammifères. Oiseaux. Poissons / vol. 4. Mollusques. Annélides / vol. 5. Crustacés. Myriapodes, scorpionides, arachnides et acarides. Insectes. Vers intestinaux. Radiaires. Zoophytes]., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/58984
page(s): 268 [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Rhyssoplax corallina (Risso, 1826). Accessed through: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvanitidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2025) European Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marbef.org/data/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1288184 on 2025-05-31

Regional species database citation

Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvanitidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2025). European Register of Marine Species. Rhyssoplax corallina (Risso, 1826). Accessed at: https://marbef.org/data/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1288184 on 2025-05-31

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2018-07-28 05:32:24Z

created

Bouchet, Philippe

2019-12-09 19:42:22Z

changed

Gofas, Serge

Licensing

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original description (of Lepidopleurus corallinus Risso, 1826) Risso, A. (1826-1827). Histoire naturelle des principales productions de l'Europe Méridionale et particulièrement de celles des environs de Nice et des Alpes Maritimes. [book series]. 400 pp., 13 pls. [volumes 1-5. Paris, F.G. Levrault. vol. 3. Mammifères. Oiseaux. Poissons / vol. 4. Mollusques. Annélides / vol. 5. Crustacés. Myriapodes, scorpionides, arachnides et acarides. Insectes. Vers intestinaux. Radiaires. Zoophytes]., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/58984
page(s): 268 [details]

original description (of Chiton rubicundus O. G. Costa, 1830) Costa, O. G. (1830 ["1829"]). Catalogo sistematico e ragionato de' testacei delle Due Sicilie. Tipografia della Minerva, Napoli, pp. 1-8, i-cxxxii, pl. 1-3., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/13047696
page(s): i, iii [details]

original description (of Chiton freelandi Forbes, 1844) Forbes E. (1844). Report on the Mollusca and Radiata of the Aegean sea, and on their distribution, considered as bearing on geology. Reports of the British Association for the Advancement of Science for 1843. 130-193., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12920789 [details]

original description (of Chiton philippii Issel, 1870) Issel, A. (1870). Intorno ai Chiton del mare di Genova. Bullettino Malacologico Italiano. 3: 5-9. [details]

original description (of Chiton pulchellus R. A. Philippi, 1844) Philippi, R. A. (1844). Enumeratio molluscorum Siciliae cum viventium tum in tellure tertiaria fossilium, quae in itinere suo observavit. Vol. 2. Halle [Halis Saxorum]: Eduard Anton. iv + 303 pp., pls 13-28., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/46936062 [details]

original description (of Chiton rubellus Pilsbry, 1893) Pilsbry, H. A. (1892-1893). Manual of conchology, structural and systematic, with illustrations of the species. Ser. 1. Vol. 14: Polyplacophora (Chitons). Lepidopleuridae, Ischnochitonidae, Chitonidae, Mopaliidae. pp i-xxxiv, 1-350, pls 1-40. Philadelphia, published by the Conchological Section, Academy of Natural Sciences. [pp. 1-64, pls. 1-15, Jul. 25, 1892; pp. 65-128, pls. 16-30, Nov. 25, 1892; pp. 129-208, pls. 31-40, Feb. 25, 1893; pp. 209-350, pls. 41-68, Jul. 1, 1893; i-xxxiv, Jul. 1, 1893]. , available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/63221 [details]

basis of record Dell'Angelo B., Lesport J.F., Cluzaud A. & Sosso M. (2018). The Oligocene to Miocene chitons (Mollusca: Polyplacophora) of the Aquitaine Basin, southwestern France, and Ligerian Basin, western France. Part 1: Leptochitonidae, Hanleyidae, Ischnochitonidae, Chitonidae, Spinochitonidae fam. nov. and Schizochitonidae. Bollettino Malacologico. 54(1): 1-47.
page(s): 30, figs 6M-U [details]

additional source Dell'Angelo, B.; Landau, B. M.; Van Dingenen, F.; Ceulemans, L. (2018). The upper Miocene chitons of northwest France (Mollusca: Polyplacophora). Zootaxa. 4447(1): 1-62., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4447.1.1
page(s): 35, fig. 18 [details] Available for editors