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List Of Marine Molluscs Of Venezuela
The marine molluscs of Venezuela are a part of the molluscan fauna of Venezuela. The marine molluscs are the snails, clams and mussels, chitons, octopuses, squid and cuttlefish that live in marine and estuarine habitats. The freshwater and land molluscs are not included in this list. This is a partial list of the marine molluscs of Venezuela. The families are listed alphabetically within the classes. Statistics Class Polyplacophora Suborder Acanthochitonina Acanthochitonidae *'' Americhiton andersoni'' (Watters, 1981) *'' Americhiton balesae'' (Abbott, 1954) *'' Acanthochitona pygmaea'' (Pilsbry, 1893) *''Acanthochitona retrojecta'' (Pilsbry, 1893) *'' Acanthochitona venezuelana'' Lyons, 1988 Suborder Chitonina Chaetopleuridae *'' Chaetopleura apiculata'' (Say, 1834) *'' Lepidochitona liozonis'' ( Dall & Simpson, 1901) Chitonidae *''Acanthopleura granulata'' (Gmelin, 1791) *'' Chiton marmoratus'' Gmelin, 1791 *'' Chiton squamosus'' Linnaeus, 1764 *''Chiton tuberculatu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Acanthochitona Retrojecta
''Acanthochitona'' is a genera, genus of chitons in the family (biology), family Acanthochitonidae, of worldwide distribution. Species According to the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS), species in the genus ''Acanthochitona'' include * ''Acanthochitona achates'' (Gould, 1859) * ''Acanthochitona andersoni'' Watters, 1981 * ''Acanthochitona angelica'' W. H. Dall, 1919 * ''Acanthochitona approximans'' (Hedley & Hull, 1912) * ''Acanthochitona armata'' (Pease, 1872) * ''Acanthochitona arragonites'' (Carpenter, 1857) * ''Acanthochitona astrigera'' (Reeve, 1847) * ''Acanthochitona avicula'' (Phillip Pearsall Carpenter, Carpenter, 1857) * ''Acanthochitona balesae'' Pilsbry MS, Abbott, 1954 – slender glass-hair chiton * ''Acanthochitona bednalli'' (Pilsbry, 1894) * ''Acanthochitona biformis'' (Nierstrasz, 1905) * ''Acanthochitona bisulcata'' (Pilsbry, 1893) * ''Acanthochitona bouvieri'' (de Rochebrune, 1881) * ''Acanthochitona brookesi'' Ashby, 1926 * ''Acanthochitona brunoi'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chiton Marmoratus
Chitons () are marine molluscs of varying size in the class Polyplacophora (), formerly known as Amphineura. About 940 extant and 430 fossil species are recognized. They are also sometimes known as gumboots or sea cradles or coat-of-mail shells or suck-rocks, or more formally as loricates, polyplacophorans, and occasionally as polyplacophores. Chitons have a shell composed of eight separate shell plates or valves. These plates overlap slightly at the front and back edges, and yet articulate well with one another. Because of this, the shell provides protection at the same time as permitting the chiton to flex upward when needed for locomotion over uneven surfaces, and even allows the animal to curl up into a ball when dislodged from rocks. The shell plates are encircled by a skirt known as a girdle. Habitat Chitons live worldwide, from cold waters through to the tropics. They live on hard surfaces, such as on or under rocks, or in rock crevices. Some species live quite high ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johann Friedrich Gmelin
, fields = , workplaces = University of GöttingenUniversity of Tübingen , alma_mater = University of Tübingen , doctoral_advisor = Philipp Friedrich GmelinFerdinand Christoph Oetinger , academic_advisors = , doctoral_students = Georg Friedrich HildebrandtFriedrich StromeyerCarl Friedrich KielmeyerWilhelm August LampadiusVasily Severgin , notable_students = , known_for = Textbooks on chemistry, pharmaceutical science, mineralogy, and botany , author_abbrev_bot = J.F.Gmel. , author_abbrev_zoo = Gmelin , influences = Carl Linnaeus , influenced = , relatives = Leopold Gmelin (son) , awards = Johann Friedrich Gmelin (8 August 1748 – 1 November 1804) was a German naturalist, botanist, entomologist, herpetologist, and malacologist. Education Johann Friedrich Gmelin was born as the eldest son of Philipp Friedrich Gmelin in 1748 in Tübingen. He studied medicine under his father at University of Tübingen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chiton Tuberculatus
''Chiton tuberculatus'', the West Indian green chiton, is a species of chiton, a marine polyplacophoran mollusk Mollusca is the second-largest phylum of invertebrate animals after the Arthropoda, the members of which are known as molluscs or mollusks (). Around 85,000 extant species of molluscs are recognized. The number of fossil species is e ... in the family Chitonidae, the typical chitons. Description ''Chiton tuberculatus'' can reach a length of about . The basic color is gray green. The valves are ribbed, dull grayish green or greenish brown, with a spicule-covered mantle girdle alternating zones of whitish, green or black.Arianna Fulvo et Roberto Nistri (2005). 350 coquillages du monde entier. Delachaux et Niestlé (Paris) : 256 p. ()W. J. CrozieGrowth and Duration of Life of Chiton Tuberculatus/ref> Distribution and habitat This species can be found under rocks and in spray zones of rocky shores, in the intertidal, shallow subtidal zone of Western Cen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Acanthopleura Granulata
''Acanthopleura granulata'', common name the West Indian fuzzy chiton (also known as Curbs or Sea Cradles), is a medium-sized tropical species of chiton. This type of chiton's activity does not depend on spring-neap oscillations leading to lower locomotion loss.Focardi, S., & Chelazzi, G. (1990). Ecological determinants of bioeconomics in three intertidal chitons (Acanthopleura spp.). Journal of Animal Ecology, 49(1), 347-362. Its morphology is different from usual chitons as it has a fifth valve, which is split into halves.Kingston, A., Sigwart, J., Chappell, D., & Speiser, D. (2019). Monster or multiplacophoran: A teratological specimen of the chiton Acanthopleura granulata (Mollusca: Polyplacophora) with a valve split into independent and symmetrical halves. Acta Zoologica, Acta Zoologica, 03/18/2019. This species is common within its range in the tropical Western Atlantic, but it is often not noticed, because its color and texture are similar to the rocks on which it lives. Wit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chitonidae
Chitonidae is a family of chitons or polyplacophorans, marine mollusks whose shell is composed of eight articulating plates or valves. There are fifteen extant genera in three subfamilies. Subfamilies and genera Subfamilies and genera within the family Chitonidae include: ** Subfamily Chitoninae Rafinesque, 1815 *** ''Chiton'' Linnaeus, 1758 – the type genus of the family *** '' Amaurochiton'' Thiele, 1893 *** ''Radsia'' Gray, 1847 *** '' Sypharochiton'' Thiele, 1893 *** '' Nodiplax'' Beu, 1967 *** ''Rhyssoplax'' Thiele, 1893 *** '' Teguloaplax'' Iredale & Hull, 1926 *** ''Mucrosquama'' Iredale, 1893 ** Subfamily Toniciinae Pilsbry, 1893 *** ''Tonicia'' Gray, 1847 *** ''Onithochiton'' Gray, 1847 ** Subfamily Acanthopleurinae Dall, 1889 *** ''Acanthopleura'' Guilding, 1829 *** '' Liolophura'' Pilsbry, 1893 *** ''Enoplochiton'' Gray Grey (more common in British English) or gray (more common in American English) is an intermediate color between black and white. It is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Torrey Simpson
Charles Torrey Simpson (June 3, 1846 in Tiskilwa, Illinois – December 17, 1932 in Lemon City, Miami, Florida) was an American botanist, malacologist, and conservationist. He retired to Florida where he became known for conservation. Scientific work His initial scientific interesting concerned collecting shells and he began as a conchologist. Although he had little more than a high school education he became well regarded in the field and in 1889 was hired by the Smithsonian Institution. He went on to work at the National Museum of Natural History from 1899 to 1902. He was interested mainly in freshwater bivalves and also in land snails of Florida. Life in Florida In Florida Simpson gained the nickname "The Sage of Biscayne Bay" and wrote several books about tropical plant life around Miami. His backyard contained a tropical hardwood hammock, which he estimated he showed to approximately 50,000 people. Though he tended to avoid controversy regarding development, in ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Healey Dall
William Healey Dall (August 21, 1845 – March 27, 1927) was an American naturalist, a prominent malacologist, and one of the earliest scientific explorers of interior Alaska. He described many mollusks of the Pacific Northwest of America, and was for many years America's preeminent authority on living and fossil mollusks. Dall also made substantial contributions to ornithology, zoology, physical and cultural anthropology, oceanography and paleontology. In addition he carried out meteorological observations in Alaska for the Smithsonian Institution. Biography Early life Dall was born in Boston, Massachusetts. His father Charles Henry Appleton Dall, (1816–86), a Unitarian minister, moved in 1855 to India as a missionary. His family however stayed in Massachusetts, where Dall's mother Caroline Wells Healey was a teacher, transcendentalist, reformer, and pioneer feminist. In 1862, Dall's father, on one of his few brief visits home, brought his son in contact with some natu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lepidochitona Liozonis
''Lepidochitona'' is a genus of chitons. It has been included in the families Tonicellidae, Ischnochitonidae, and Lepidochitonidae.Schwabe, E., et al. (2014)''Lepidochitona''.World Register of Marine Species. '' L. raymondi'' is the only hermaphroditic polyplacophoran. There are many fossil species in the genus, as well as species extant today.Dell'Angelo, B., et al. (2011)Chitons (Polyplacophora) from Paleogene strata in western Washington State, USA.''Journal of Paleontology'' 85(5), 936-54. Species include: *''Lepidochitona aleutica'' *'' Lepidochitona bullocki'' *'' Lepidochitona caboverdensis'' *'' Lepidochitona canariensis'' *''Lepidochitona caprearum'' * † ''Lepidochitona chalossensis'' Dell'Angelo, Lesport, Cluzaud & Sosso, 2020 *''Lepidochitona cinerea'' *'' Lepidochitona dicksae'' *''Lepidochitona furtiva'' *''Lepidochitona iberica'' *''Lepidochitona kaasi'' *'' Lepidochitona liozonis'' *''Lepidochitona monterosatoi'' *''Lepidochitona piceola'' *''Lepidochitona ro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Say
Thomas Say (June 27, 1787 – October 10, 1834) was an American entomologist, conchologist, and Herpetology, herpetologist. His studies of insects and shells, numerous contributions to scientific journals, and scientific expeditions to Florida, Georgia, the Rocky Mountains, Mexico, and elsewhere made him an internationally known naturalist. Say has been called the father of American descriptive entomology and American conchology. He served as librarian for the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, curator at the American Philosophical Society (elected in 1817), and professor of natural history at the University of Pennsylvania. Early life and education Born in Philadelphia into a prominent Religious Society of Friends, Quaker family, Thomas Say was the great-grandson of John Bartram, and the great-nephew of William Bartram. His father, Dr. Benjamin Say, was brother-in-law to another Bartram son, Moses Bartram. The Say family had a house, "The Cliffs" at Gray's Ferry Bridge, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chaetopleura Apiculata
''Chaetopleura apiculata'' is a species of small chiton in the family Chaetopleuridae. It is a marine mollusc. Distribution * Gulf of MexicoSchwabe, E. (2010). Chaetopleura (Chaetopleura) apiculata (Say in Conrad, 1834). In: Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S.; Rosenberg, G. (2010) World Marine Mollusca database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=159930 on 2011-01-27 * North West Atlantic Description Teeth of the radula of this species were studied using atom-probe tomography to analyze the chemical structure; the results were published in 2011.Gordon L. M. & Joester D. (2011). "Nanoscale chemical tomography of buried organic–inorganic interfaces in the chiton tooth". ''Nature'' 469: 194-197. . It was shown that the teeth contained fibers surrounded by magnetite, and some of them also contained sodium or magnesium Magnesium is a chemical element with the symbol Mg and atomic number 12. It is a shiny ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
