Species Acanthochitona granostriata (Pilsbry, 1894)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Acanthochites granostriatus Pilsbry, H.A. 1894. Notices of new chitons. II. Nautilus 7: 119-120 [Date published Feb. 1894] [119].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) ANSP 64847 1 specimen (other syntypes not located), Port Jackson, NSW.
• Acanthochites tatei Torr, W.G. & Ashby, E. 1898. Definitions of seven new species of South Australian Polyplacophorae. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 22: 215-220 pls 6-7 [219].

  Type data:

   Neotype SAMA D13732, Middleton, Encounter Bay, SA.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Cotton, B.C. & Godfrey, F.K. 1940. The Molluscs of South Australia. Part 2. Scaphopoda, Cephalopoda, Aplacophora and Crepipoda. Adelaide : Government Printer 600 pp. [527].

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Kaas, P. & Van Belle, R.A. 1998. Catalogue of Living Chitons (Mollusca: Polyplacophora). Leiden : Backhuys 204 pp. [84]

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IMCRA

Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • 200 m bathymetric: Bass Strait, Central E coast, Lower E coast, S Gulfs coast

Ecological Descriptors

Littoral.

Extra Ecological Information

Under stones.

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
13-Oct-2015	POLYPLACOPHORA	01-Oct-2015	MODIFIED	Ms Anouk Mututantri (AM)
		12-Feb-2010	(import)