Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Mollusca > Class Polyplacophora > Subclass Neoloricata > Order Lepidopleurida > Suborder Lepidopleurina > Family Leptochitonidae > Genus Leptochiton

Leptochiton asellus (Gmelin, 1791)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Original genus

Chiton Linnaeus, 1758

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Leptochiton*	J. E. Gray, 1847	accepted genus name
*Chiton (Leptochiton)*	J. E. Gray, 1847	synonym
*Lepidopleurus (Leptochiton)*	J. E. Gray, 1847	synonym
*Leptochiton (Leptochiton)*	J. E. Gray, 1847	synonym

Species group names

*Chiton fuscatus*	Leach, 1852	synonym
*Chiton scoticus*	Leach, 1852	synonym
*Chiton cinereus*	Linnaeus, 1767 sensu Montagu, 1803	misapplied name

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Danish: grå skallus sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Dutch: gewone pissebedkeverslak; pissebedkeverslak sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points;Hayward, P.; Nelson-Smith, A.; Shields, C. (1999). Gids van kust en strand: flora en fauna [Coast and beach guide: flora and fauna]. Tirion: Baarn, Netherlands. ISBN 90-5210-327-5. 352, ill. pp.

English: coat-of-mail chiton; pill chiton sources: Cole, T. C. H. (2017). Wörterbuch der Wirbellosen / Dictionary of Invertebrates. Latein-Deutsch-English. 2017. Springer Spektrum: Berlin. ISBN 978-3-662-52869-3. XII, 574 pp.

German: Assel-Käferschnecke

Literature

additional source	Taviani, M.; Sosso, M.; Dell'Angelo, B. (2023). Chitons from deep-water mollusk-rich deposits in the southwestern Adriatic Sea (Mollusca, Polyplacophora). Diversity. 15(3): 359: 1-17.

Genbank

Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Leptochiton asellus (Gmelin, 1791). 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:140199