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

Boreochiton ruber (Linnaeus, 1767)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Original genus

Tonicella P. P. Carpenter, 1873

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Boreochiton*	G. O. Sars, 1878	accepted genus name

Species group names

*Chiton incarnatus*	Reeve, 1848	synonym
*Chiton latus*	Leach, 1852	synonym
*Chiton minimus*	Spengler, 1797	synonym
*Chiton ruber var. oblonga*	Jeffreys, 1865	synonym
*Tonicella rubra*	(Linnaeus, 1767)	synonym
*Tonicella rubra var. index*	Balch, 1906	synonym

Vernaculars (+) (-)

English: northern red chiton; red northern 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: Rote Käferschnecke

Literature

basis of record	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.

Genbank

Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Boreochiton ruber (Linnaeus, 1767). 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:386411