Chiton tuberculatus

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Overview

Interesting Facts

Common Names

Description

Habitat

Typically found in water with a depth of 0 to -5,907 meters (0 to -19,380 feet).[1]

Biome: Marine .

Taxonomy

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name .

Comment: intertidal, shallow subtidal

Last scrutiny: Aug-2008

Similar Species

Members of the genus Chiton

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 1 species and subspecies in this genus:

C. tuberculatus (West Indian Green Chiton)

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Further Reading

• A catalog of recent Mollusca from all parts of the world. St. Petersburg, Fa: W.F. Webb, 19--. url p. 119, p. 146.
• A descriptive catalogue of recent shells: arranged according to the Linnæan method; with particular attention to the synonymy / by Lewis Weston Dillwyn. .. London: Printed for J. and A. Arch, 1817. url , p. 12.
• A history of British Mollusca and their shells / by Edward Forbes and Sylvanus Hanley. London: J. Van Voorst, 1853. url p. 298, p. 298.
• A manual of the common invertebrate animals, exclusive of insects / by Henry Sherring Pratt. .. with over one thousand illustrations. Chicago: A.C. McClurg & Co., 1923. url p. 489.
• American seashells. With illus. by Frederick M. Bayer. New York, Van Nostrand[1954] url p. 324.
• An up-to-date systematic list of 3200 seashells from Greenland to Texas: translation, explanation, and gender of their names. [Brooklyn?]1954. url .
• Animal ecology, by Charles Elton; with an introduction by Julian S. Huxley. New York, Macmillan Co., 1927. url p. 152, p. 202.
• Bibliography of North American conchology previous to the year 1860: prepared for the Smithsonian Institution / by W. G. Binney. Washington: Smithsonian Institution, 1863-1864. url p. 416.
• Biology code of the Chemical-Biological Coordination Center... Washington, National Academy of Sciences, National Research Council, 1960. url p. 35.
• Botanical abstracts. Baltimore, Williams & Wilkins Co. url p. 44.
• Breviora. 1971 Cambridge, Mass.: Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, [1952- url p. 2.
• Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College. 18 1889 Cambridge, Mass.: The Museum, 1863- url p. 414.
• Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences Los Angeles, Calif.: The Academy, 1971- url p. 47.
• Conchological miscellany. Boston, etc., 1834?-1883? url p. 138.
• Contributions from the Bermuda Biological Station for Research. Cambridge, Mass.: [s.n.], July 1904- url p. 228, p. 233.
• East coast marine shells: descriptions of shore mollusks together with many living below tide mark, from Maine to Texas inclusive, especially Florida, with more than one thousand drawings and photographs / by Maxwell Smith. Ann Arbor, Mich.: Edwards Brothers, 1951, [c1937] url p. 23, p. 262.
• East coast marine shells; descriptions of shore mollusks together with many living below tide mark, from Maine to Texas inclusive, especially Florida. Ann Arbor, Mich., Edwards Brothers, Inc.[c1937] url p. 23, p. 262.
• Fish bulletin. [Sacramento]1913- url p. 38, p. 99.
• Guide to the marine isopod crustaceans of the Caribbean / Brian Kensley and Marilyn Schotte. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, c1989. url p. 229.
• Index testaceologicus, an illustrated catalogue of British and foreign shells, containing about 2, 800 figures accurately coloured after nature, by W. Wood. .. London, Willis and Sotheran, 1856. url .
• Journal of morphology. Boston: Ginn & Co., [1887-1924] url p. 160, p. 167.
• List of marine Mollusca comprising the Quaternary fossils and recent forms from American localities between Cape Hatteras and Cape Roque, including the Bermudas / by William Healey Dall. Washington: Govt. Print. Off., 1885. url p. 75.
• Manual of conchology, structural and systematic: with illustrations of the species / by George W. Tryon, Jr. Philadelphia: Published by the Author, Academy of Natural Sciences, 1879-1898. url p. 149, p. 149, p. 149, p. 154, p. 154, p. 154, p. 228, p. 228, p. 341, p. 341, p. 341.
• Manual of the New Zealand mollusca / with an atlas of quarto plates. Wellington, N. Z.: J. Mackay, govt. printer, 1913-1915. url p. 44.
• Molluscorum Britanniæ synopsis: A synopsis of the Mollusca of Great Britain / By William Elford Leach. London, J. van Voorst, 1852. url p. 230.
• Nature. London, etc., Macmillan Journals Ltd., etc. url .
• Postilla. 1974 New Haven, Conn.: Peabody Museum of Natural History, [1950?]-c2004. url p. 3, p. 4.
• Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, 4th series. San Francisco, California Academy of Sciences. url p. 434.
• Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London. London, Dulau. url p. 37.
• Proceedings of the United States National Museum. 1 1878 Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc.] url p. 297, p. 300.
• Report on the scientific results of the voyage of H.M.S. Challenger during the years 1873-76: under the command of Captain George S. Nares, R.N., F.R.S. and Captain Frank Turle Thomson, R.N. / prepared under the superintendence of Sir C. Wyville Thomson. Edinburgh: Neill, 1880-1895. url p. 20.
• Smithsonian year. 1971 Washington: Smithsonian Institution, 1965-1976. url p. 168, p. 209, p. 365, p. 369.
• The Biological bulletin. Woods Hole, Mass.: Marine Biological Laboratory, url , , p. 157, p. 160, p. 162, p. 163, p. 164, p. 178, p. 246, p. 249, p. 251, p. 252, p. 258, p. 457, p. 460, p. 465, p. 57, p. 82.
• The Journal of experimental zoology. [New York, etc.]Wiley-Liss [etc.] url , p. 158, p. 158, p. 159, p. 160, p. 160, p. 161, p. 161, p. 162, p. 163, p. 164, p. 167, p. 169, p. 169, p. 170, p. 171, p. 171, p. 172, p. 173, p. 173, p. 175, p. 176, p. 178, p. 180, p. 180, p. 182, p. 182, p. 184, p. 184, p. 187, p. 187, p. 190, p. 190, p. 211, p. 211, p. 226, p. 226, p. 228, p. 233, p. 236, p. 236, p. 238, p. 238, p. 256, p. 256, p. 257, p. 257, p. 359, p. 359, p. 360, p. 360, p. 455, p. 458, p. 495.
• The Nautilus. Melbourne, Fla., etc., American Malacologists, inc., etc. url , p. 108, p. 108, p. 121, p. 121, p. 142, p. 28, p. 28, p. 3, p. 30, p. 75, p. 79.
• The anatomical record. [New York, etc.]A. R. Liss [etc.] url p. 351.
• The conchologist / Boston: Russell, Odiorne & Metcalf, 1834. url p. 172.
• The conchologist's first book, or, A system of testaceous malachology, arranged expressly for the use of schools: in which the animals, according to Cuvier, are given with the shells, and a great number of new species added: with colored illustrations of two hundred and fifteen shells, presenting a correct type Philadelphia: Barrington and Haswell, 1845. url p. 89.
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Notes

Contributors

• Bisby, F.A., Y.R. Roskov, M.A. Ruggiero, T.M. Orrell, L.E. Paglinawan, P.W. Brewer, N. Bailly, J. van Hertum, eds (2007). Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2007 Annual Checklist. Species 2000: Reading, U.K.
• Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 15, 2012.
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed February 28, 2008. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from 3 providers.
• Ruggiero M., Gordon D., Bailly N., Kirk P., Nicolson D. (2011). The Catalogue of Life Taxonomic Classification, Edition 2, Part A. In: Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2011 Annual Checklist (Bisby F.A., Roskov Y.R., Orrell T.M., Nicolson D., Paglinawan L.E., Bailly N., Kirk P.M., Bourgoin T., Baillargeon G., Ouvrard D., eds). DVD; Species 2000: Reading, UK.
• URMO: UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms. Release date: November 18, 2008

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal February 28, 2008:

• Academy of Natural Sciences: Academy of Natural Sciences Malacology Database
• Academy of Natural Sciences: Academy of Natural Sciences OBIS Mollusc Database [Darwin Core]
• Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University: Taxonomic Information Sytem for the Belgian coastal area
• Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad (Costa Rica): Biodiversidad de Costa Rica

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 2691640
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: URM-Pol-225
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 79015
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 511587

Footnotes

1. Mean = -1,494.190 meters (-4,902.198 feet), Standard Deviation = 1,863.500 based on 42 observations. Ocean depth information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]

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