Species Ischnochiton (Ischnochiton) purus Sykes, 1896

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Species Ischnochiton (Ischnochiton) purus Sykes, 1896

Ischnochiton (Haploplax) pura Sykes, E.R. 1896. Report on a collection of Polyplacophora from Port Phillip, Victoria. Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London 2: 84-93 pl. 6 [Date published July 1896] [88].
Type data:
Holotype NMV F681 1 specimen, Port Phillip Bay, VIC.
Paratype(s) NMV F27314 2 specimens.
Ischnochiton (Stenochiton) pallens Ashby, E. 1900. Definitions of two new species of South Australian Polyplacophora. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 24: 86-88 pl. 1 [Date published Dec. 1900] [86].
Type data:
Lectotype SAMA D978 6 valves (another specimen (SAMA D11728) from the original series is the holotype of Ischnochiton (Chartoplax) nubilis Cochran, 1993), Gulf St Vincent, 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. [511].

Distribution

States

New South Wales, South Australia, 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)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

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

Ecological Descriptors

Benthic, sublittoral.

Extra Ecological Information

On rocks under sand.

General References

Cochran, T.G. 1993. A new species of Ischnochiton (Chartoplax) Iredale & Hull, 1924 (Mollusca: Polyplacophora) from South Australia, and the status of Ischnochiton (Stenochiton) pallens Ashby, 1900. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria 105(1): 49-56 [Date published 31 Mar. 1993] [50] (as Ischnochiton (Ischnochiton) pura)

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	30-Sep-2015	MODIFIED	Ms Anouk Mututantri (AM)
		04-Sep-2014	MODIFIED

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