Species Lucilina dilecta (Thiele, 1911)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Lucilina dilecta Thiele, J. 1911. Polyplacophora. In, Michaelsen, W. & Hartmeyer, R. (eds). Die Fauna Südwest-Australiens. Ergebnisse der Hamburger südwest-australischen Forschungreise 1905. Vol. 3 pp. 397–406 pl. 6. Jena : Gustav Fischer. [397].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, whereabouts unknown, Shark Bay, WA.
• Tonicia truncata Odhner, N.H. 1917. Results of Dr E. Mjöbergs Swedish scientific expeditions to Australia. 1910–1913, pt XVII, Mollusca. Kongliga Svenska Vetenskaps-Academiens Nya Handlingar, Stockholm 52(16): 1–115 pls 1–3 [Date published 19 Sept. 1917] [12].

  Type data:

   Holotype whereabouts unknown, Broome, WA.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Kaas, P. & Van Belle, R.A. 1998. Catalogue of Living Chitons (Mollusca: Polyplacophora). Leiden : Backhuys 204 pp. [62]

 

Generic Combinations

• Lucilina dilecta (Thiele, 1911).

 

Distribution

States

Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Northwest Province (4), Central Western Transition (5)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • 200 m bathymetric: Central W coast, N coast, NW coast

Ecological Descriptors

Benthic, sublittoral.

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
		12-Feb-2010	(import)