Species Ischnochiton (Ischnochiton) wilsoni Sykes, 1896

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Species Ischnochiton (Ischnochiton) wilsoni Sykes, 1896

Ischnochiton wilsoni 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] [89].
Type data:

Syntype(s) NMV F682 1 specimen, Port Phillip Bay, VIC; NMV F27315 1 specimen, Port Phillip Bay, VIC; ANSP 67527 1 specimen, Port Phillip Bay, VIC.
Ischnochiton levis Torr, W.G. 1912. South Australian Polyplacophora. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 36: 140-170 pls 5-7 [Date published 31 Dec. 1912] [168].
Type data:
Holotype SAMA D11976 6 valves + fragments, Edithburgh, Yorke Peninsula, SA.

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. [211]

Distribution

States

South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia

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

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)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

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

Ecological Descriptors

Benthic, sublittoral.

Extra Ecological Information

On rocks under thin layer of sand.

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)
		12-Feb-2010	(import)

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