Species Cryptoplax larvaeformis (Blainville in Burrow, 1815)

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Species Cryptoplax larvaeformis (Blainville in Burrow, 1815)

Cryptoconchus larvaeformis Blainville, H.M.D. in Burrow, E.I. 1815. Elements of Conchology according to the Linnean System. 248 pp. pls i–xxviii. [190].
Type data:
Syntype(s) MNHP, locality unknown.
Chitonellus laevis Lamarck, J.-B.P. 1819. Oscabrelle (Chitonellus). Histoire naturelle des animaux sans vertèbres 6: 316-317 [317].
Type data:
Holotype MNHP, Australia (as New Holland).
Chiton chitonellus Blainville, H.M.D de 1825. Oscabrelle. Oscabrion. In, Dictionnaire des Sciences Naturelles. Paris : Levrault Vol. 36 pp. 519–556. [550].
Type data:
Status unknown, whereabouts unknown, Australia (as New Holland).
Chiton cruciformis Sowerby, G.B. 1822. Genera of Recent and Fossil Shells. London : G.B. Sowerby Vol. 2 pls. [1822] [pl. 139, fig. 5].
Type data:
Holotype BMNH, locality unknown.
Chiton vermiformis Blainville, H.M.D de 1825. Oscabrelle. Oscabrion. In, Dictionnaire des Sciences Naturelles. Paris : Levrault Vol. 36 pp. 519–556. [553].
Type data:
Holotype MNHP, Australia (as New Holland).
Chiton fasciatus Quoy, J.R.C. & Gaimard, J.P. 1835. Genre Oscabrion, Chiton, Linné. pp. 369–441 in, Voyage de Découvertes de l'Astrolabe, Éxecuté par Ordre du Roi, Pendant les Années 1826–1827–1828–1829, sous le commandement de M.J. Dumont d'Urville. Zoologie 3 Mollusques. Paris : J. Tastu. [408] [junior homonym of Chiton fasciatus Wood, 1815].
Type data:
Syntype(s) MNHP, on Pangai-Modou Reef, Tonga-Tabou.
Cryptoplax caledonica Rochebrune, A.T. de 1882. Diagnoses d'espèces nouvelles de la famille des Chitonidae (Premier supplément). Bulletin de la Société Philomathique de Paris 7 6: 190-197 [195].
Type data:
Holotype MNHP, New Caledonia.
Cryptoplax montanoi Rochebrune, A.T. de 1882. Diagnoses d'espèces nouvelles de la famille des Chitonidae (Premier supplément). Bulletin de la Société Philomathique de Paris 7 6: 190-197 [190].
Type data:
Syntype(s) MNHP, Borneo and Luzon, Philippines.
Cryptoplax peroni Rochebrune, A.T. de 1882. Diagnoses d'espèces nouvelles de la famille des Chitonidae (Premier supplément). Bulletin de la Société Philomathique de Paris 7 6: 190-197 [193].
Type data:
Holotype MNHP, Australia (as New Holland).
Cryptoplax heurteli Rochebrune, A.T. de 1882. Diagnoses d'espèces nouvelles de la famille des Chitonidae (Premier supplément). Bulletin de la Société Philomathique de Paris 7 6: 190-197 [196].
Type data:
Holotype MNHP, New Caledonia.
Cryptoplax unciniferus Rochebrune, A.T. de 1882. Diagnoses d'espèces nouvelles de la famille des Chitonidae (Premier supplément). Bulletin de la Société Philomathique de Paris 7 6: 190-197 [197].
Type data:
Holotype MNHP, New Caledonia.
Cryptoplax coronatus Rochebrune, A.T. de 1884. Fauna de la Sénégambie. 6 Vols (in 5 books) Paris. [1883–1887] [238].
Type data:
Holotype MNHP, Tonga Tabu.
Cryptoplax lamarcki Thiele, J. 1909. Revisions des Systems der Chitonen. Zoologica (Stuttgart) 22: 1-70 pls 1-6 [1909] [54] [nom. nud.; ex Rochebrune manuscript name].
Cryptoplax dawydoffi Leloup, E. 1937. Diagnoses de six nouvelles espèces d'amphineures polyplacophores de la region Indo-Pacifique. Bulletin du Musée Royal d'Histoire Naturelle du Belgique 13(38): 1-3 [Date published Sept. 1937] [2].
Type data:
Holotype whereabouts unknown, Vietnam.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

Kaas, P. & Van Belle, R.A. 1998. Catalogue of Living Chitons (Mollusca: Polyplacophora). Leiden : Backhuys 204 pp. [106-107]

Distribution

States

Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

WA, NT, QLD, east Indo-central Pacific Oceans.

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

Timor Transition (1), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), 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: Central W coast, Great Barrier Reef, N coast, NE coast, NW coast

Ecological Descriptors

Benthic, sublittoral.

Extra Ecological Information

Under rocks.

General References

Bouchet, P. & Schwabe, E. 2010. Cryptoplax larvaeformis (Burrow, 1815). In: MolluscaBase (2015). World Register of Marine Species. http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=220212 (Accessed on 2015-08-18)

Schwabe, E. 2007. Taxonomic notes on chitons. 5 *. On some problematica and a new record of Polyplacophora from Indonesia (Mollusca). Spixiana (Munich) 30(2): 145-158 [Date published 1 Nov: * Part 4 was published in African Invertebrates 47: 23-30] [149, figs 3, 4A,C, 5A,C,E, 6A,C]

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	22-Nov-2017	MODIFIED	Ms Anouk Mututantri (AM)
		12-Feb-2010	(import)

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