North Atlantic Register of Marine Species (NARMS)

NARMS name details

Amicula vestita (Broderip & G. B. Sowerby I, 1829)

AphiaID

159928 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:159928)

Classification

Status

unaccepted > superseded combination

Accepted name

Amicula amiculata (Pallas, 1788)

Rank

Species

Parent

Amicula J. E. Gray, 1847

Original name

Chiton vestitus Broderip & G. B. Sowerby I, 1829

Environment

marine, ~~brackish~~, ~~fresh~~, ~~terrestrial~~

Fossil range

recent only

Original description

(of ) Broderip, W. J. & Sowerby, G. B. I. (1829). Observations on new or interesting Mollusca contained, for the most part, in the Museum of the Zoological Society. Zoological Journal. 4: 359-379, pl. 9. [January]., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/27485275
page(s): 368 [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Amicula vestita (Broderip & G. B. Sowerby I, 1829). Accessed through: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvanitidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2025) European Register of Marine Species at: https://www.vliz.be/vmdcdata/narms/narms.php?p=taxdetails&id=159928 on 2026-06-14

Regional species database citation

NARMS (2026). Amicula vestita (Broderip & G. B. Sowerby I, 1829). Accessed at: https://www.vliz.be/vmdcdata/narms/narms.php?p=taxdetails&id=159928 on 2026-06-14

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2005-05-30 13:01:42Z

created

Claus, Simon

2009-03-23 08:24:45Z

changed

Schwabe, Enrico

2023-01-21 08:31:39Z

changed

Vinarski, Maxim

2025-01-10 18:58:40Z

changed

Bouchet, Philippe

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original description (of ) Broderip, W. J. & Sowerby, G. B. I. (1829). Observations on new or interesting Mollusca contained, for the most part, in the Museum of the Zoological Society. Zoological Journal. 4: 359-379, pl. 9. [January]., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/27485275
page(s): 368 [details]

basis of record Brunel, P., L. Bosse & G. Lamarche. (1998). Catalogue of the marine invertebrates of the estuary and Gulf of St. Lawrence. Canadian Special Publication of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 126. 405 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors

additional source Gosner, K. L. (1971). Guide to identification of marine and estuarine invertebrates: Cape Hatteras to the Bay of Fundy. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., London. 693 pp. [pdf copepod and branchiuran :445-455]. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors

additional source Yakovleva, A. M. (1952). [in Russian] Shell-bearing Mollusks (Loricata) of the seas of the USSR. Fauna USSR no. 45: 107 pp, 53 figs., 11 pls. Zoological Institute, Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Moscow.
page(s): 83, pl. VI, fig. 2 [details]

additional source Bousfield, E.L. 1960. Canadian Atlantic sea shells. National Museum of Canada, Ottawa. 72 p. [details]