Species Acanthochitona sueurii (Blainville, 1825)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Chiton sueurii Blainville, H.M.D de 1825. Oscabrelle. Oscabrion. In, Dictionnaire des Sciences Naturelles. Paris : Levrault Vol. 36 pp. 519–556. [553].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) MNHP, King George Sound, WA.
• Chiton (Acanthochiton) asbestoides Carpenter, P.P. in Smith, E.A. 1884. Mollusca. pp. 34-116, 487-508, 657-659, pls 4-7. In, Report on the Zoological Collections made in the Indo-Pacific Ocean during the voyage of the H.M.S. 'Alert ' 1881-2. London : British Museum Trustees, printed by Taylor & Francis. [Part I. Collections of Melanesia, pp. 34-116; Part II. Collections from the Western Indian Ocean, pp. 487-508; explanation of plates pp. 657-659]. [83].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, whereabouts unknown, Flinders Is., Bass Strait.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Kaas, P. & Van Belle, R.A. 1998. Catalogue of Living Chitons (Mollusca: Polyplacophora). Leiden : Backhuys 204 pp. [182]

 

Distribution

States

South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IMCRA

Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Great Australian Bight Shelf Transition (32), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Southeast Shelf Transition (37)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • 200 m bathymetric: Bass Strait, G. Aust. Bight, Lower W coast, S Gulfs coast, SW coast, Tas. Coast

Ecological Descriptors

Littoral.

Extra Ecological Information

Under rocks not embedded in sand.

 

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)