MarBEF Data System - ERMS - Leptochiton arcticus (G. O. Sars, 1878)

CaRMS taxon details

Leptochiton arcticus (G. O. Sars, 1878)

AphiaID

140198 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:140198)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Parent

Leptochiton J. E. Gray, 1847

Original name

Lepidopleurus arcticus G. O. Sars, 1878

Synonymised names

Lepidopleurus arcticus G. O. Sars, 1878 · unaccepted > superseded combination

Environment

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

Original description

(of Lepidopleurus arcticus G. O. Sars, 1878) 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]

Descriptive notes

Distribution geographic range not obtained; has been recorded in the Bay of Fundy

Distribution geographic range not obtained; has been recorded in the Bay of Fundy [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Leptochiton arcticus (G. O. Sars, 1878). Accessed through: Nozères, C., Kennedy, M.K. (Eds.) (2025) Canadian Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/carms/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=140198 on 2025-05-24

Regional species database citation

Nozères, C., Kennedy, M.K. (Eds.) (2025). Canadian Register of Marine Species. Leptochiton arcticus (G. O. Sars, 1878). Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/Carms/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=140198 on 2025-05-24

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2004-12-21 15:54:05Z

created

Gofas, Serge

2011-10-09 01:30:18Z

changed

Rosenberg, Gary

2022-08-16 09:55:08Z

changed

Neubauer, Thomas A.

[taxonomic tree]

original description (of Lepidopleurus arcticus G. O. Sars, 1878) 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 (MSBIAS) MEDIN. (2011). UK checklist of marine species derived from the applications Marine Recorder and UNICORN. version 1.0. [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 Gofas, S.; Le Renard, J.; Bouchet, P. (2001). Mollusca. in: Costello, M.J. et al. (eds), European Register of Marine Species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Patrimoines Naturels. 50: 180-213., available online at http://www.vliz.be/imisdocs/publications/ocrd/254404.pdf [details]

additional source 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]

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Present

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

Unreviewed
Canada
Iceland
North Atlantic Ocean
Norway

Unreviewed

Diet herbivores [details]

Dimensions 10 to 20 mm [details]

Distribution geographic range not obtained; has been recorded in the Bay of Fundy [details]

Habitat shallow water or littoral forms and are usually confined to hard substrata to which they cling [details]

Reproduction sexes are separate but they are indistinguishable externally. fertilization is external and usually the eggs are shed into the water [details]

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