Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Mollusca > Class Polyplacophora > Subclass Neoloricata > Order Chitonida > Suborder Acanthochitonina > Superfamily Cryptoplacoidea > Family Acanthochitonidae > Subfamily Acanthochitoninae

Acanthochitona J. E. Gray, 1821

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Acanthochaetes*	Risso, 1826	orthographic variant
*Acanthochites*	Risso, 1826	synonym
*Acanthochiton*	Herrmannsen, 1846	synonym; nom. inval.
*Anisochiton*	P. Fischer, 1885	synonym
*Chiton (Platysemus)*	Middendorff, 1847	synonym

Children

Acanthochitona barbarae Dell'Angelo, Sosso & Taviani, 2024
Acanthochitona bouvieri (Rochebrune, 1881)
Acanthochitona crinita (Pennant, 1777)
Acanthochitona discrepans (T. Brown, 1827)
Acanthochitona fascicularis (Linnaeus, 1767)
Acanthochitona oblonga Leloup, 1981
Acanthochitona pilosa Schmidt-Petersen, Schwabe & Haszprunar, 2015
Acanthochitona subrubicunda (Leloup, 1941)

Literature

original description	Gray, J. E. (1821). A natural arrangement of Mollusca, according to their internal structure. London Medical Repository. 15 (87): 229–239.
basis of record	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]
redescription	Sirenko B.I. & Saito H. (2017). New species of chitons of the superfamily Cryptoplacoidea (Mollusca: Polyplacophora) from Vietnamese waters. Zootaxa. 4299(4): 451-506.

Genbank

Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Acanthochitona J. E. Gray, 1821. 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:137613