Species Callochiton rufus Ashby, 1900

Museums

Regional Maps

• Callochiton rufus Ashby, E. 1900. Definitions of two new species of South Australian Polyplacophora. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 24: 86-88 pl. 1 [Date published Dec. 1900] [87].

  Type data:

   Holotype SAMA D11700, Gulf St Vincent, SA.
• Icoplax luminosa 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] [349].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM C133939, Masthead Reef, Capricorn Group, QLD.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Kaas, P. & Van Belle, R.A. 1985. Monograph of Living Chitons (Mollusca: Polyplacophora). Suborder Ischnochitonina. Ischnochitonidae: Schizoplacinae, Callochitoninae & Lepidochitoninae. Leiden : E.J. Brill/Dr W. Backhuys Vol. 2 198 pp. [50]

 

Distribution

States

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 Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), 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, Great Barrier Reef, S Gulfs coast

Ecological Descriptors

Benthic, 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)