Species Ischnochiton (Haploplax) arbutum (Reeve, 1847)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Chiton arbutum 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. 24, sp. & fig. 162].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, whereabouts unknown, unknown (on Pinna [Bivalvia], Port Essington, QLD).

  Type locality references:

  Iredale, T. & Hull, A.F.B. 1924. A monograph of the Australian loricates (Phylum Mollusca – Order Loricata). III. The Australian Zoologist 3: 277-297 pls 35-37 [Date published 7 Oct. 1924] [296].
• Lepidopleurus cygneus Carpenter, P.P. in Iredale, T. & Hull, A.F.B. 1924. A monograph of the Australian loricates (Phylum Mollusca – Order Loricata). III. The Australian Zoologist 3: 277-297 pls 35-37 [296] [nom. nud.].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s).

 

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. [80]

 

Distribution

States

Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

WA, NT, QLD, Indonesia.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • 200 m bathymetric: Great Barrier Reef, Gulf of Carp., N coast, NE coast, NW coast

Ecological Descriptors

Benthic, littoral, sublittoral.

Extra Ecological Information

Under stones embedded in sand or mud in shallow water.

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
		12-Feb-2010	(import)