Genus Cryptoplax Blainville, 1818

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• Cryptoplax Blainville, H.M.D. de 1818. In, Dictionnaire des Sciences Naturelles. Paris : Levrault Vol. 12. [124] [introduced as a subgenus of Chiton Linnaeus, 1758].

  Type species:

   Cryptoconchus larvaeformis Blainville in Burrow, 1815 by subsequent designation, see Haddon, A.C. 1886. Report on the Polyplacophora collected by H.M.S. Challenger during the years 1873–76. Challenger Reports Zoology 15: 1-50 pls 1-3 [Date published 9 Aug. 1886] [37].
• Chitonellus Lamarck, J.-B.P. 1819. Oscabrelle (Chitonellus). Histoire naturelle des animaux sans vertèbres 6: 316-317 [316].

  Type species:

   Chitonellus laevis Lamarck, 1819 by subsequent designation, see Gray, J.E. 1847. A list of the Genera of Recent Mollusca, their Synonyms and Types. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 15: 129-242 [169] (= Cryptoconchus larvaeformis Blaineville in Burrow, 1815).
• Oscabrella Broderip, W.J. 1836. British Cyclopaedia N. H. 2(14): 31. [31].

  Type species:

   Chitonellus laevis Lamarck, 1819 by monotypy (= Cryptoconchus larvaeformis Blaineville in Burrow, 1815).
• Chitoniscus Herrmannsen, A.N. 1846. Indicis Generum Malacozoorum Primordia. Cassellis : Theodor Fischer Vol. 1, Fasc. 1 & 2, pp. 1-232. [230] [nom. nov. for Chitonellus Lamarck, 1819].
• Phaenochiton Middendorff, A.T. von 1847. Beiträge zu einer Malacozoologia Rossica. Mémoires de l'Academie Imperial de la Société des Sciences, Saint Pétersburg 6: 1-151 pls 1-14 [33] [junior objective synonym of Cryptoplax Blaineville, 1818; introduced as a subgenus of Chiton Linnaeus, 1758].

  Type species:

   Cryptoconchus larvaeformis Blainville in Burrow, 1815 by subsequent designation, see Iredale, T. & Hull, A.F.B. 1925. A monograph of Australian loricates (Phylum Mollusca – Order Loricata). V. Family Cryptoconchidae. The Australian Zoologist 4(2): 75-111 pls 9-12 [Date published 10 Nov. 1925] [101].
• Dichachiton Middendorff, A.T. von 1847. Beiträge zu einer Malacozoologia Rossica. Mémoires de l'Academie Imperial de la Société des Sciences, Saint Pétersburg 6: 1-151 pls 1-14 [33] [junior objective synonym of Cryptoplax Blaineville, 1818; introduced as a section of the subgenus Phaenochiton Middendorff, 1847 of Chiton Linnaeus, 1858].

  Type species:

   Cryptoconchus larvaeformis Blainville in Burrow, 1815 by subsequent designation, see Iredale, T. & Hull, A.F.B. 1925. A monograph of Australian loricates (Phylum Mollusca – Order Loricata). V. Family Cryptoconchidae. The Australian Zoologist 4(2): 75-111 pls 9-12 [Date published 10 Nov. 1925] [101].
• Ametrogephyrus Middendorff, A.T. von 1847. Beiträge zu einer Malacozoologia Rossica. Mémoires de l'Academie Imperial de la Société des Sciences, Saint Pétersburg 6: 1-151 pls 1-14 [33] [junior objective synonym of Cryptoplax Blaineville, 1818, introduced as a subsection of the section Dichachiton Middendorff, 1847 of the subgenus Phaenochiton Middendorff, 1847 of Chiton Linnaeus, 1758].

  Type species:

   Cryptoconchus larvaeformis Blainville in Burrow, 1815 by subsequent designation, see Iredale, T. & Hull, A.F.B. 1925. A monograph of Australian loricates (Phylum Mollusca – Order Loricata). V. Family Cryptoconchidae. The Australian Zoologist 4(2): 75-111 pls 9-12 [Date published 10 Nov. 1925] [101].

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Van Belle, R.A. 1983. The systematic classification of the chitons (Mollusca: Polyplacophora). Informations de la Société Belge de Malacologie 11: 1-178 [136]

 

Distribution

States

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

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-Pacific Oceans.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Lord Howe Province (14), Christmas Island Province (23), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), 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), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northwest Province (4), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41), Central Western Transition (5)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • 200 m bathymetric: Bass Strait, Central W coast, G. Aust. Bight, Great Barrier Reef, Lower E coast, Lower W coast, N coast, NE coast, NW coast, S Gulfs coast, SW coast, Tas. Coast
  • Lord Howe Island
• Christmas Island (Aust. Terr.)

Distribution References

History of changes

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