Genus Leptoplax Carpenter in Dall, 1882

Museums

Regional Maps

• Leptoplax Carpenter, P.P. in Dall, W.H. 1882. On the genera of chitons. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 4: 279-291 [283].

  Type species:

   Chiton coarctatus Sowerby, 1841 by monotypy.
• Leptoplax Dall, W.H. 1879. Report on the limpets and chitons of the Alaskan and Arctic regions, with descriptions of genera and species believed to be new. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 1: 281-344 [Date published 13 Feb. 1879] [296] [nom. nud.].
• Mecynoplax Thiele, J. 1893. Lepidoglossa. pp. 353–401 pls 30–32 in Troschel, F.H. (ed.) Das Gebiss der Schnecken Zur Begründung Einer Naturlichen Classification. Vol. 2. Berlin. [393].

  Type species:

   Chiton acutirostratus Reeve, 1847 by monotypy (sensu Thiele, 1893).

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Gowlett-Holmes, K.L. 2001. Polyplacophora. pp. 19-84 in Wells, A. & Houston, W.W.K. (eds). Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Vol. 17.2 Mollusca: Aplacophora, Polyplacophora, Scaphopoda, Cephalopoda. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing, Australia xii 353 pp. [Date published 3 July 2001] (Van Belle, R.A. 1983. The systematic classification of the chitons (Mollusca: Polyplacophora). Inf. Soc. Belge Malacol. 11: 1–178 regarded this genus as a synonym of Notoplax H. Adams, 1861, but it is distinct from the latter as defined by Gowlett-Holmes, K.L. 1991. Redefinition of the genus Notoplax H. Adams, 1861, and recognition of the monotypic New Zealand genus Pseudotonicia Ashby, 1928 (Mollusca: Polyplacophora: Acanthochitonidae). Journal of the Malacologogical Society of Australia 12: 77–88, and Leptoplax is regarded here as a valid genus)

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Central-Indo-Pacific Oceans.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IMCRA

Central Western Shelf Transition (28), 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), Northwest Province (4), Central Western Transition (5)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • 200 m bathymetric: Bass Strait, Central W coast, G. Aust. Bight, Lower E coast, Lower W coast, S Gulfs coast, SW coast

History of changes

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