Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Mollusca > Class Polyplacophora > Subclass Neoloricata > Order Chitonida > Suborder Acanthochitonina > Superfamily Mopalioidea > Family Tonicellidae > Subfamily Tonicellinae

Boreochiton G. O. Sars, 1878

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Boreochiton beringensis (Yakovleva, 1952)
Boreochiton granulatus (Jakovleva, 1952)
Boreochiton ruber (Linnaeus, 1767)

Literature

original description	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.
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	Stebbins, T. D.; Eernisse, D. J. (2009). Chitons (Mollusca: Polyplacophora) known from benthic monitoring programs in the Southern California Bight. The Festivus. 41 (6): 53–100, errata.
status source	Sirenko B.I. (2016). Boreochiton jakovlevae sp. nov. (Mollusca: Polyplacophora), a new chiton from the Sea of Okhotsk. The Bulletin of the Russian Far East Malacological Society. 20(1): 27-34.
taxonomy source	Sirenko B.I. (2000). Genus Boreochiton G.O. Sars, 1878 (Mollusca, Polyplacophora): the old name, a new composition. Ruthenica, Russian Malacological Journal. 10(1): 71-79.

Genbank

Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Boreochiton G. O. Sars, 1878. 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:152629