Species Notoplax glauerti (Ashby, 1923)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Acanthochiton spongialis glauerti Ashby, E. 1923. A new species and subspecies of Acanthochiton. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 10: 13-15 pl. 1 [14] [removed from synomymy of Notoplax speciosa Iredale, T. & Hull, 1925 and accorded full species status in Notoplax by Gowlett-Holmes, K.L. 2001. Polypolacophora. 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. (311)].

  Type data:

   Holotype WAM 10399, Cottesloe, WA.

  Secondary source:

   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].

 

Distribution

States

South Australia, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

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

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

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

Ecological Descriptors

Benthic, carnivorous, sublittoral.

Extra Ecological Information

Usually found in association with Asteropus sponges on which it lives and feeds.

 

History of changes

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