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Leptochiton cancellatus (G. B. Sowerby II, 1840)

Leptochiton cancellatus (Sowerby, 1840)Specimen from Calón, Almería, Spain (actual size 5.0 mm).
Leptochiton cancellatus (Sowerby, 1840)
Specimen from Calón, Almería, Spain (actual size 5.0 mm).

140201  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:140201)

accepted
Species
Chiton cancellatus G. B. Sowerby II, 1840 · unaccepted (original combination)
Chiton tuberculatus Leach, 1852 · unaccepted > junior homonym (not Chiton tuberculatus Linnaeus,...)  
not Chiton tuberculatus Linnaeus, 1758
Lepidochiton cancellatus (G. B. Sowerby II, 1840) · unaccepted > superseded combination
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent + fossil
(of Chiton cancellatus G. B. Sowerby II, 1840) Sowerby, G. B. I; Sowerby, G. B. II. (1833-1840). <i>Chiton</i>. In: <i>The Conchological Illustrations or, Coloured figures of all the hitherto unfigured recent shells</i>. 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): 167, figs. 104, 104a–b, 105 [details] 
MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Leptochiton cancellatus (G. B. Sowerby II, 1840). 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=140201 on 2026-05-06
Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvanitidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2026). European Register of Marine Species. Leptochiton cancellatus (G. B. Sowerby II, 1840). Accessed at: https://marbef.org/data/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=140201 on 2026-05-06
Date
action
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2004-12-21 15:54:05Z
created
Gofas, Serge
2009-03-23 08:24:45Z
changed
Schwabe, Enrico
2015-12-07 14:09:42Z
changed
Gofas, Serge
2019-09-12 21:19:48Z
changed
Marshall, Bruce
2024-02-07 09:10:34Z
changed
Köhler, Frank

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original description (of Chiton tuberculatus Leach, 1852) Leach, W. E. (1852). Molluscorum Britanniae Synopsis. A synopsis of the Mollusca of Great Britain, arranged according to their natural affinities and anatomical structure. Van Voorst, London, viii + 376 pp., pls 1-5*,5**-13 (edited posthumously by J. E. Gray). , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/13107076 [details] 

original description (of Chiton cancellatus G. B. Sowerby II, 1840) Sowerby, G. B. I; Sowerby, G. B. II. (1833-1840). <i>Chiton</i>. In: <i>The Conchological Illustrations or, Coloured figures of all the hitherto unfigured recent shells</i>. 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): 167, figs. 104, 104a–b, 105 [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. <em>Patrimoines Naturels.</em> 50: 180-213., available online at http://www.vliz.be/imisdocs/publications/ocrd/254404.pdf [details] 

additional source Kaas, P. & Van Belle, R. A. (1998). Catalogue of living chitons (Mollusca, Polyplacophora). second, revised edition. 1-204; Backhyus Publishers Leiden.
page(s): 39 [details] 

additional source Dell'Angelo, B.; Landau, B. M.; Silva, C. M. D.; Sosso, M. (2022). Biogeography of northeastern Atlantic Neogene chitons (Mollusca, Polyplacophora): New data from the Pliocene of Portugal. <em>Journal of Paleontology.</em> 96(4): 814-838., available online at https://doi.org/10.1017/jpa.2022.1 [details] Available for editors  PDF available

additional source Dell'Angelo, B.; Sosso, M.; Taviani, M. (2025). The Cenozoic European Polyplacophora (Mollusca). <em>Zootaxa.</em> 5704(1): 1-377., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5704.1.1
page(s): 51, fig. 13 [details] Available for editors  PDF available
 
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To Barcode of Life (1 barcode) 
To Barcode of Life (17 barcodes) (from synonym Chiton tuberculatus Leach, 1852)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (39 publications) 
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (59 publications) (from synonym Lepidopleurus cancellatus (G. B. Sowerby II, 1840))
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (61 publications) (from synonym Chiton cancellatus G. B. Sowerby II, 1840)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (71 publications) (from synonym Chiton tuberculatus Leach, 1852)
To Dyntaxa 
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Chiton tuberculatus) (from synonym Chiton tuberculatus Leach, 1852)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Leptochiton cancellatus) 
To GenBank (3 nucleotides; 1 proteins) 
To GenBank (3 nucleotides; 1 proteins) (from synonym Chiton cancellatus G. B. Sowerby II, 1840)
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI) 
To Malacopics (Leptochiton cancellatus (G. B. Sowerby II, 1840) France, Bretagne, Finistère, Roscof... 
To Malacopics (Leptochiton cancellatus (G. B. Sowerby II, 1840) Guernsey, Herm) 
To PESI 
To PESI (from synonym Chiton tuberculatus Leach, 1852)
To PESI (from synonym Chiton cancellatus G. B. Sowerby II, 1840)
To PESI (from synonym Lepidopleurus cancellatus (G. B. Sowerby II, 1840))
To PESI (from synonym Lepidochiton cancellatus (G. B. Sowerby II, 1840))
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection (from synonym Lepidopleurus cancellatus (G. B. Sowerby II, 1840))
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