Species Ischnochiton (Ischnochiton) contractus (Reeve, 1847)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Chiton contractus 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. 15, sp. and fig. 78].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH 1951.1.24.5–7 3 specimens, New Zealand (in error =SA).
• Chiton sulcatus 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. [385] [junior homonym of Chiton sulcatus Wood, 1815].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) MNHP, King George Sound, WA.
• Chiton decussatus 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. 18, sp. and fig. 107].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH 1951.1.25.8, Australia.
• Chiton castus 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. 22, sp. and fig. 145].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH 1842.7.9.3, locality unknown.
  Paralectotype(s) BMNH 1842.7.9.4 1 specimen, locality unknown.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Carpenter, P.P. in Pilsbry, H.A. 1892. Monograph of the Polyplacophora. In Tryon, G.W. Manual of Conchology. Academy of Sciences : Philadelphia Series Vol. 14. i-xxxiv 129-350 pls 31-68 [94].
• Lepidopleurus speciosus 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] [192].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH 1870.10.26.165, Port Lincoln, SA.
• Gymnoplax urvillei Rochebrune, A.T. de 1881. Diagnoses d'espèces nouvelles de la famille des Chitonidae. Bulletin de la Société Philomathique de Paris 7 5: 115-121 [121].

  Type data:

   Holotype MNHP, King George Sound, WA.
• Ischnochiton intergranosus Pilsbry, H.A. 1892. Monograph of the Polyplacophora. In Tryon, G.W. Manual of Conchology. Academy of Sciences : Philadelphia Series Vol. 14. i-xxxiv 129-350 pls 31-68 [93] [nom. nud.].

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Kaas, P. & Van Belle, R.A. 1990. Monograph of Living Chitons (Mollusca: Polyplacophora). Suborder Ischnochitonina. Ischnochitonidae: Ischnochitoninae (continued). Additions to Vols 1, 2 and 3. Leiden : E.J. Brill Vol. 4 298 pp. [200]

 

Distribution

States

South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IMCRA

Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), 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), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Northwest Province (4), Central Western Transition (5)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • 200 m bathymetric: Bass Strait, Central W coast, G. Aust. Bight, Lower W coast, NW coast, S Gulfs coast, SW coast

Ecological Descriptors

Benthic, sublittoral.

Extra Ecological Information

On shells and rocks in 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)