Species Leptochiton badius (Hedley & Hull, 1909)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Lepidopleurus badius Hedley, C. & Hull, A.F.B. 1909. Descriptions of new and notes on other Australian Polyplacophora. Records of the Australian Museum 7: 260-266 pls 73-74 [Date published 30 Aug. 1909] [260].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) AM C30459 2 specimens, Long Reef near Narrabeen, NSW; SAMA D10668 5 specimens, Long Reef, near Narrabeen, NSW; SAMA D12532 1 specimen, Long Reef, near Narrabeen, NSW; NMV F16404 2 specimens, Long Reef, Manly, NSW.
• Lepidopleurus glauerti Ashby, E. 1929. Contributions to the fauna of Rottnest Island. No. II. Polyplacophora. Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Western Australia 15: 47-54 [Date published 27 Mar. 1929] [50].

  Type data:

   Holotype WAM 12878, Bathurst Point, Rottnest Is., WA.
  Paratype(s) WAM 12875 1 specimen; SAMA D16152 1 incomplete specimen, Bathurst Point, Rottnest Is., WA.
• Terenochiton iscus Cotton, B.C. & Weeding, B.J. 1939. Flindersian loricates. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 63: 180-199 pl. 7 [Date published 22 Dec. 1939] [182].

  Type data:

   Holotype SAMA D1232, Cape Jervis, SA.

  Type locality references:

  Zeidler, W. & Gowlett, K.L. 1986. Mollusc type-specimens in the South Australian Museum. 3. Polyplacophora. Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 19: 97-115.

 

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. [142]

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, 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), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39)

Ecological Descriptors

Benthic, sublittoral.

 

General References

Schwabe, E. 2009. Leptochiton badius (Hedley & Hull, 1909). In: MolluscaBase (2015). World Register of Marine Species. http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=385779 (Accessed on 2015-08-18)

Sirenko, B. 2020. New Zealand and Australian species of the genus Leptochiton (Mollusca: Polyplacophora). Zootaxa 4851(3): 401–449 (Comparison of Tasmanian specimens to Sydney specimens [topotype])

 

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)