Species Choriplax grayi (H. Adams & Angas, 1864)

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Species Choriplax grayi (H. Adams & Angas, 1864)

Microplax grayi Adams, H. & Angas, G.F. 1864. Descriptions of new genera and species of Chitonidae from the Australian seas, in the collection of George French Angas. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1864: 192-194 [Date published 10 May 1864] [194].
Type data:
Holotype BMNH 1877.11.7.2, Watsons Bay, Port Jackson, NSW [33°52'S 151°15'E].
Choriplax grayi pattisoni Ashby, E. 1921. The rediscovery of Choriplax (=Microplax) grayi, Adams and Angas (Order Polyplacophora), with notes on its true place in the natural system and the description of a new sub-species. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 45: 136-142 [Date published 21 Dec. 1921] [137].
Type data:
Holotype SAMA D15019, nr Cape Banks Lighthouse, SA [37°54'S 140°22'E].

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

Gowlett-Holmes, K.L. 1987. The suborder Choriplacina Starobogatov & Sirenko, 1975 with a redescription of Choriplax grayi (H. Adams & Angas, 1864) (Mollusca: Polyplacophora). Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 111: 105-110 [105]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

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), 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)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

Australia
- 200 m bathymetric: Bass Strait, Lower E coast, Lower W coast, S Gulfs coast, Tas. Coast

Ecological Descriptors

Algae feeder, benthic, sublittoral.

General References

Sigwart, J.D., Stoeger, I., Knebelsberger, T. & Schwabe, E. 2013. Chiton phylogeny (Mollusca: Polyplacophora) and the placement of the enigmatic species Choriplax grayi (H. Adams & Angas). Invertebrate Systematics 27: 603-621

History of changes

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

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