Species Plaxiphora (Plaxiphora) obscurella (Souverbie, 1866)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Chiton obscurellus Souverbie, S.M. & Montrouzier, R.P. 1866. Descriptions d'espèces nouvelles de l'Archipel Caledonien. Journal de Conchyliologie 14: 248-261 pl. 9 [250].

  Type data:

   Holotype RIB, Art Is., New Caledonia.
• Aerilamma primordia Hull, A.F.B. 1924. New Queensland loricates. (Phylum Mollusca, Order Loricata). Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland 36: 109-116 pl. 21 [113].

  Type data:

   Holotype QM MO1140, Stone Is., Port Denison, QLD.
  Paratype(s); QM.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Kaas, P. & Van Belle, R.A. 1994. Monograph of Living Chitons (Mollusca: Polyplacophora). Suborder Ischnochitonina. Ischnochitonidae: Ischnochitoninae (concluded); Callistoplacinae; Mopaliidae. Additions to Vols 1–4. Leiden : E.J. Brill Vol. 5 402 pp. [281]

 

Distribution

States

Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

WA, QLD, New Caledonia.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IMCRA

Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • 200 m bathymetric: Great Barrier Reef, Lower W coast, NE coast

Ecological Descriptors

Littoral, sublittoral.

Extra Ecological Information

Under stones embedded in sand in shallow water.

 

History of changes

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