Species Craspedoplax variabilis (H. Adams & Angas, 1864)

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Species Craspedoplax variabilis (H. Adams & Angas, 1864)

Hanleya variabilis 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:
Neotype AM C156826, Yorke Peninsula, SA.
Subsequent designation references:
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] [97].
Craspedoplax variabilis cambrica 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] [97].
Type data:
Holotype AM C156827, Port Jackson, NSW.
Acanthochites rufus Torr, W.G. 1912. South Australian Polyplacophora. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 36: 140-170 pls 5-7 [Date published 31 Dec. 1912] [167].
Type data:
Holotype SAMA D12208, Kangaroo Is., SA.
Craspedoplax variabilis diminuta 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] [97].
Type data:
Holotype QM MO1213, North QLD.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

Kaas, P. & Van Belle, R.A. 1998. Catalogue of Living Chitons (Mollusca: Polyplacophora). Leiden : Backhuys 204 pp. [194]

Generic Combinations

Craspedochiton variabilis (H. Adams & Angas, 1864).
Craspedoplax variabilis (H. Adams & Angas, 1864).

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria

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

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)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

Australia
- 200 m bathymetric: Bass Strait, Central E coast, G. Aust. Bight, Lower E coast, S Gulfs coast

Ecological Descriptors

Littoral, rock reef.

Extra Ecological Information

Under rocks.

General References

Saito, H. 2004. Phylogenetic significance of the radula in chitons, with special reference to the Cryptoplacoidea (Mollusca: Polyplacophora). Bollettino Malacologico (Supplemento 5): 83-104 [Date published 2004: publication dated 2003] [87-89, figs 4A-C]

Schwabe, E. 2009. Craspedoplax variabilis (H. Adams & Angas, 1864). In: MolluscaBase (2015). World Register of Marine Species. http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=386547 (Accessed on 2015-08-12)

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)
13-Oct-2015	POLYPLACOPHORA	01-Oct-2015	MODIFIED	Ms Anouk Mututantri (AM)
		12-Feb-2010	(import)

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