Species Acanthochitona pilsbryi (Sykes, 1896)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Acanthochites pilsbryi Sykes, E.R. 1896. Report on a collection of Polyplacophora from Port Phillip, Victoria. Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London 2: 84-93 pl. 6 [Date published July 1896] [91].

  Type data:

   Holotype NMV F678, Port Phillip Bay, VIC.
• Acanthochites maughani 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 [218].

  Type data:

   Holotype SAMA D12264 6 valves + girdle, Victor Harbour (as Port Victor), SA.
• Acanthochiton pilsbryi maughaneanus Ashby, E. 1919. Descriptions of six new species of Australian Polyplacophora (four acanthochitons and two callistochitons), with other notes. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 43: 394-404 pls 41-42 [395].

  Type data:

   Holotype SAMA D15536 4 valves + fragments, Sydney Harbour, NSW.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Kaas, P. & Van Belle, R.A. 1998. Catalogue of Living Chitons (Mollusca: Polyplacophora). Leiden : Backhuys 204 pp. [145]

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, 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), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • 200 m bathymetric: Bass Strait, Lower E coast, S Gulfs coast, Tas. Coast

Ecological Descriptors

Littoral, sublittoral.

Extra Ecological Information

Under stones in muddy/silty situations.

 

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)