Species Ischnochiton (Ischnoradsia) australis (Sowerby, 1840)

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Species Ischnochiton (Ischnoradsia) australis (Sowerby, 1840)

Chiton australis Sowerby, G.B. II 1840. Descriptions of some new chitons. Magazine of Natural History ns 4(suppl.): 287-294 pl. 16 [Date published June 1840] [290].
Type data:
Status unknown, whereabouts unknown, Australia.
Chiton australis Sowerby, G.B. II 1833. The conchological illustrations, or coloured figures of all the hitherto unfigured recent shells. Parts 38–45. London. [fig. 46] [nom. nud.].
Chiton evanidus Sowerby, G.B. II 1840. Descriptions of some new chitons. Magazine of Natural History ns 4(suppl.): 287-294 pl. 16 [Date published June 1840] [291].
Type data:
Status unknown, whereabouts unknown, Australia (as New Holland).
Chiton metallicus 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. 17, sp. & fig. 104].
Type data:
Syntype(s) BMNH 1986282/1–5 5 specimens, Australia.
Chiton novaehollandiae Gray, J.E. in Reeve, L.A. 1847. Monograph of the genus Chiton. In, Conchologica Iconica. London : L. Reeve & Co. Vol. 4 pls 1–27. [pl. 21, sp. & fig. 142].
Type data:
Syntype(s) BMNH 1989087–8 2 specimens, Australia (as New Holland).
Chiton (Lophyrus) lugubris Gould, A.A. 1859. Descriptions of shells collected by the North Pacific Exploring Expedition. Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History 7: 161-166 [163].
Type data:
Syntype(s) USNM 2075 2 specimens, locality unknown.
Secondary source:
Johnson, R.I. 1964. The recent Mollusca of Augustus Addison Gould: Illustrations of the types described by Gould with a bibliography and catalog of his species. Bulletin of the United States National Museum 239: 1-182 [105].
Ischnoradsia australis divaricata Hull, A.F.B. 1923. New Australian Loricata and notes on the distribution of certain species. 1. The Australian Zoologist 3: 195-201 pls 27-28 [Date published 18 Dec. 1923] [196].
Type data:
Syntype(s) NMV F17976 1 specimen (other syntypes not located), Point Cartwright, QLD.

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. [57]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, 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

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, Lower E coast, S Gulfs coast, Tas. Coast

Ecological Descriptors

Benthic, rock reef, sublittoral.

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	01-Oct-2015	MODIFIED	Ms Anouk Mututantri (AM)
		12-Feb-2010	(import)

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