Species Loricella angasi (H. Adams in H. Adams & Angas, 1864)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Lorica angasi Adams, H. in Adams, H. & Angas, G.F. 1864. Descriptions of new genera and species of Chitonidae from the Australian seas, in the collection of George French Angas. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1864: 192-194 [193].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH 1870.10.26.164, Rapid Bay, SA.
• Loricella torri Ashby, E. 1919. A review of the genus Loricella (Order Polyplacophora), with notes on features previously unnoted and description of a new species. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 43: 59-65 pl. 10 [62].

  Type data:

   Holotype SAMA D12440, Quarantine Station, Sydney, NSW.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Kaas, P. & Van Belle, R.A. 1998. Catalogue of Living Chitons (Mollusca: Polyplacophora). Leiden : Backhuys 204 pp. [19]

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IMCRA

Great Australian Bight Shelf Transition (32), 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)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

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

Ecological Descriptors

Benthic, carnivorous, sublittoral.

Extra Ecological Information

On and under rocks, on rocks under sand, feeds mainly on small crustaceans, particularly amphipods.

 

History of changes

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)