Genus Bassethullia Pilsbry, 1928

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Genus Bassethullia Pilsbry, 1928

Bassethullia Pilsbry, H.A. 1928. Book review – "A Monograph of Australian Loricates (Chitons)". Nautilus 41: 104-106 [105] [nom. nov. for Glyptelasma Iredale & Hull, 1925].
Glyptelasma 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] [94] [junior homonym of Glyptelasma Pilsbry, 1907 (Crustacea)].
Type species:
Acanthochites matthewsi Bednall & Pilsbry in Pilsbry, 1894 by original designation.
Lirachiton Ashby, E. & Cotton, B.C. 1939. New fossil chitons from the Miocene and Pliocene of Victoria. Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 6: 209-242 pls 19-21 [Date published 16 Dec. 1939] [215] [introduced as a subgenus of Acanthochiton Gray, 1821 (emended by Iredale, 1915)].
Type species:
Acanthochiton (Lirachiton) inexpectus Ashby & Cotton, 1939 by original designation.
Molachiton Ashby, E. & Cotton, B.C. 1939. New fossil chitons from the Miocene and Pliocene of Victoria. Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 6: 209-242 pls 19-21 [Date published 16 Dec. 1939] [220].
Type species:
Molachiton naxus Ashby & Cotton, 1939 by original designation.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

Gowlett-Holmes, K.L. 1990. A review of the endemic Australian chiton genus Bassethullia Pilsbry, 1928 (Mollusca: Polyplacophora: Acanthochitonidae). Journal of the Malacological Society of Australia 11: 9-28 [10]

Distribution

States

South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

Note that conversion of the original AFD map of states, drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones to IBRA and IMCRA regions may have produced errors. The new maps will be reviewed and corrected as updates occur. The maps may not indicate the entire distribution. See further details below.

IBRA and IMCRA regions (map not available)

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones (map not available)

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), 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

History of changes

Note that this list may be incomplete for dates prior to September 2013.

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
		12-Feb-2010	(import)

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