Species Bassethullia matthewsi (Bednall & Pilsbry, 1894)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Acanthochites matthewsi Bednall, W.T. & Pilsbry, H.A. in Pilsbry, H.A. 1894. Notices of new chitons. II. Nautilus 7: 119-120 [Date published Feb. 1894] [120].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANSP 64916, Giles Point, Yorke Peninsula, SA.
• Glyptelasma matthewsi occidentalis 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] [95].

  Type data:

   Holotype WAM 11660, Middleton Beach, King George Sound, WA.
  Paratype(s) NMV F15164 1 specimen, Middleton Beach, King George Sound, WA.

 

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 [16]

 

Distribution

States

South Australia, 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), 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

Ecological Descriptors

Benthic, sublittoral.

Extra Ecological Information

On pebbles, cobbles and rocks in fine to coarse sands, free-living in coarse to very coarse sands.

 

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)