Species Callistochiton antiquus (Reeve, 1847)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Chiton antiquus Reeve, L.A. 1847. Monograph of the genus Chiton. In, Conchologica Iconica. London : L. Reeve & Co. Vol. 4 pls 1–27. [Feb., Mar., Apr., May 1847] [pl. 25, sp. & fig. 169].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH, Australia.
• Callistochiton sarcophagus 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]. [79] [nom. nud.].
• Callistochiton antiquus meridionalis 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 [400].

  Type data:

   Holotype SAMA D13716, Marino, SA.
  Paratype(s) SBMNH 34456 7 specimens, Marino, Gulf St Vincent, SA.
• Callistochiton antiquus mayi 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 [401].

  Type data:

   Holotype SAMA D12550 1 valve, Penguin, TAS.
• Callistelasma meridionalis hesperia Iredale, T. & Hull, A.F.B. 1925. A monograph of Australian loricates (Phylum Mollusca – Order Loricata). IV. Family Lepidopleuridae. The Australian Zoologist 3(8): 339-362 pls 39-40 [Date published 14 Jan. 1925] [353].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, whereabouts unknown, King George Sound, WA.
• Callistelasma periousia Iredale, T. & Hull, A.F.B. 1925. A monograph of Australian loricates (Phylum Mollusca – Order Loricata). IV. Family Lepidopleuridae. The Australian Zoologist 3(8): 339-362 pls 39-40 [Date published 14 Jan. 1925] [353].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) QM MO1209 1 specimen, Grassy Is., Whitsunday Group, QLD; NMV F15560 2 specimens, Grassy Is., Whitsunday Group, QLD.
• Callistochiton gatliffi Ashby, E. 1927. Further notes on Victorian chitons. Victorian Naturalist 63: 356-358 [Date published Apr. 1927] [357].

  Type data:

   Holotype whereabouts unknown (?lost; possibly destroyed in bush fire, see Zeidler, W. & Gowlett, K.L. 1986. Mollusc type-specimens in the South Australian Museum. 3. Polyplacophora. Rec. S. Aust. Mus. 19: 97–115), Sydney, NSW.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Kaas, P. & Van Belle, R.A. 1994. Monograph of Living Chitons (Mollusca: Polyplacophora). Suborder Ischnochitonina. Ischnochitonidae: Ischnochitoninae (concluded); Callistoplacinae; Mopaliidae. Additions to Vols 1–4. Leiden : E.J. Brill Vol. 5 402 pp. [185]

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, 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), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • 200 m bathymetric: Bass Strait, Central E coast, G. Aust. Bight, Lower E coast, Lower W coast, NE coast, S Gulfs coast, SW coast

Ecological Descriptors

Benthic, rock reef, sublittoral.

 

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)