Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Mollusca > Class Polyplacophora > Subclass Neoloricata > Order Chitonida > Suborder Chitonina > Superfamily Chitonoidea > Family Chitonidae > Subfamily Acanthopleurinae

Acanthopleura Guilding, 1830

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Chiton (Acanthopleura)*	Guilding, 1830	synonym

Literature

original description	Guilding L. (1830). Observations on the Chitonidae. The Zoological Journal. 5: 25-35.
basis of record	Vaught, K.C.; Abbott, R.T.; Boss, K.J. (1989). A classification of the living Mollusca. American Malacologists: Melbourne. ISBN 0-915826-22-4. XII, 195 pp.
status source	Sirenko B.I. 1993. Revision of the system of the order Chitonida (Molluscs: Polyplacophora) on the basis of correlation between the type of gills arrangement and the shape of the chorion processes. Ruthenica 3: 93-117 [In Russian]
subsequent type designation	Gray, J. E. (1847). A list of the genera of recent Mollusca, their synonyma and types. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. (1847) 15: 129-219. [November 1847].

Genbank

Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Acanthopleura Guilding, 1830. Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:151210