Species Leptochiton matthewsianus (Bednall in Bednall & Matthews, 1906)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Lepidopleurus matthewsianus Bednall, W.T. in 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] [92].

  Type data:

   Neotype SAMA D13734, 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. [476].
• Lepidopleurus matthewsi Tate, R. & May, W.L. 1901. A revised census of the marine Mollusca of Tasmania. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 26(3): 344-471 [412] [nom. nud.].
• Lepidopleurus niger Torr, W.G. 1911. Western Australian Polyplacophora. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 35: 94-107 pls 24-25 [Date published 31 Dec. 1911] [105].

  Type data:

   Holotype SAMA D11686 incomplete, Hopetoun, WA.
• Terenochiton erratus Hull, A.F.B. 1923. New Australian Polyplacophora, and notes on the distribution of certain species. The Australian Zoologist 3: 157-166 pls 24-26 [Date published 15 Aug. 1923] [159].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM C49541, Rabbit (=Mistaken) Is., King George Sound, WA.
  Paratype(s) NMV F17982 2 specimens, Rabbit (=Mistaken) Is., King George Sound, WA; AM C156829 1 specimen, Rabbit (=Mistaken) Is., King George Sound, WA.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Kaas, P. & Van Belle, R.A. 1985. Monograph of Living Chitons (Mollusca: Polyplacophora). Order Neoloricata: Lepidopleurina. Leiden : E.J. Brill/Dr W. Backhuys Vol. 1 240 pp. [137]

 

Distribution

States

South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

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)

Ecological Descriptors

Benthic, sublittoral.

Extra Ecological Information

Under stones in sand.

 

General References

Sirenko, B. 2020. New Zealand and Australian species of the genus Leptochiton (Mollusca: Polyplacophora). Zootaxa 4851(3): 401–449 (Tasmanian specimens examined)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
10-Dec-2023	POLYPLACOPHORA	20-Oct-2023	MODIFIED
13-Oct-2015	POLYPLACOPHORA	01-Oct-2015	MODIFIED	Ms Anouk Mututantri (AM)
		12-Feb-2010	(import)