Species Ischnochiton (Haploplax) smaragdinus (Angas, 1867)

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• Lophyrus smaragdinus Angas, G.F. 1867. Descriptions of thirty-two new species of marine shells from the coast of New South Wales. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1867: 110-117, pl. 13 [115].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH 1870.10.26.171, Port Jackson, NSW.
• Ischnochiton (Haploplax) smaragdinus picturatus Pilsbry, H.A. 1894. List of Port Jackson chitons collected by Dr J.C. Cox, with a revision of Australian Acanthochitidae. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia 46: 69-88 pls 2-4 [Date published 29 May 1894] [72] [introduced as a variety of Ischnochiton (Haploplax) smaragdinus (Angas, 1867)].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) ANSP 64874 6 specimens, Port Jackson, NSW.
• Ischnochiton resplendens Bednall, W.T. & Matthews, E.H.V. 1906. On new species of Polyplacophora from South Australia. Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London 7: 91-92 pl. 9 [Date published 29 June 1906] [91].

  Type data:

   Neotype SAMA D13739, Marino, SA.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Cotton, B.C. & Godfrey, F.K. 1940. The Molluscs of South Australia. Part 2. Scaphopoda, Cephalopoda, Aplacophora and Crepipoda. Adelaide : Government Printer 600 pp. [503]; Gowlett-Holmes, K.L. 2001. Polyplacophora. pp. 19-84 in Wells, A. & Houston, W.W.K. (eds). Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Vol. 17.2 Mollusca: Aplacophora, Polyplacophora, Scaphopoda, Cephalopoda. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing, Australia xii 353 pp. [Date published 3 July 2001] (a specimen in AM (C147926) is listed as the holotype, and while its status is unlikely to be correct, it could be an earlier-erected neotype of Iredale & Hull (1925)).
• Ischnochiton (Haploplax) smaragdinus funereus Ashby, E. 1924. The chiton fauna (Polyplacophora) of Port Stephens, New South Wales. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 48: 313-322 pl. 31 [315] [introduced as a variety of Ischnochiton (Haploplax) smaragdinus (Angas, 1867)].

  Type data:

   Holotype SAMA D11237, Long Reef, NSW.

 

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. [82]

 

Distribution

States

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

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IMCRA

Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Great Australian Bight Shelf Transition (32), 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), 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, Lower W coast, S Gulfs coast, SW coast, Tas. Coast

Ecological Descriptors

Benthic, littoral, sublittoral.

Extra Ecological Information

Under stones in shallow water, on rocks under sand.

 

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)