What is Acanthopleura?
{{italic title}} {{Taxobox | name = ''Acanthopleura'' | status = | image = Acanthopleura spinosa 01 Pengo.jpg | image_caption = A mounted specimen of ''Acanthopleura spinosa'', anterior end to the left | regnum = [[Animal]]ia | subregnum = [[Metazoa]] | branch = [[Bilateria]] | phylum = [[Mollusca]] | classis = [[Polyplacophora]] | ordo = [[Chitonida]] | familia = [[Chitonidae]] | genus = '''''Acanthopleura''''' | genus_authority = Guilding, 1829 | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision = 8, see text. }} '''''Acanthopleura''''' is a [[genera|genus]] of [[chiton]]s in the [[family (biology)|family]] [[Chitonidae]]. In this genus the girdle is spiny or spiky. It has eight described species at present. ==Species== According to the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS), species in the genus ''Acanthopleura'' include<ref> [http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=151210 WoRMS: Acanthopleura] </ref> * ''[[Acanthopleura brevispinosa]]'' <small>(Sowerby, 1840)</small> * ''[[Acanthopleura echinata]]'' <small>(Barnes, 1824)</small> * ''[[Acanthopleura gemmata]]'' <small>(de Blainville, 1825)</small> * ''[[Acanthopleura granulata]]'' <small>(Gmelin, 1791)</small> * ''[[Acanthopleura loochooana]]'' <small>(Broderip & Sowerby, 1829)</small> * ''[[Acanthopleura planispina]]'' <small>Bergenhayn, 1933</small> * ''[[Acanthopleura spinosa]]'' <small>(Bruguiere, 1792)</small> * ''[[Acanthopleura vaillantii]]'' <small>de Rochebrune, 1882</small> * ''[[Acanthopleura hirtosa]]'' * ''[[Acanthopleura gaimardi]]'' <small>Blainville 1825</small> ==References== {{reflist}} ==Other websites== {{Commonscat|Acanthopleura}} {{wikispecies}} * {{youTube|id=1X_qg-WsWHo|title= Video of Chiton (''Acanthopleura echinata'') en la piscina de la marea, Caldera, Chile}} {{taxonbar|from=Q2706529}} {{authority control}} [[Category:Molluscs]] {{biology-stub}}