Species Plaxiphora (Fremblya) matthewsi Iredale, 1910

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• Plaxiphora matthewsi Iredale, T. 1910. Notes on Polyplacophora, chiefly Australian. (Part I). Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London 9: 90-105 [Date published 30 June 1910] [99].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH, SA.
• Plaxiphora hedleyi Torr, W.G. 1911. Western Australian Polyplacophora. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 35: 94-107 pls 24-25 [Date published 31 Dec. 1911] [103].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) SAMA D12871 1 specimen (other syntypes not located), Rabbit Is., Albany, WA.
• Plaxiphora zebra Torr, W.G. 1911. Western Australian Polyplacophora. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 35: 94-107 pls 24-25 [Date published 31 Dec. 1911] [106].

  Type data:

   Holotype SAMA D12869 1 valve, Port Esperance, WA.
• Kopionella tasmanica Ashby, E. 1920. Chitons of the D'Entrecasteaux Channel, southern Tasmania, including additions to the Tasmanian fauna, and descriptions of a new species and a new variety. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 44: 263-271 pl. 11 [268].

  Type data:

   Holotype SAMA D12156, Lunawanna, South Bruny Is., TAS.
  Paratype(s) WAM 9772 1 specimen; SBMNH 34454 1 specimen, Woodbridge, D'Entrecasteaux Channel, TAS; NMV F16720 1 specimen, D'Entrecasteaux Channel, TAS.
• Kopionella matthewsi intermedia Ashby, E. 1927. Notes on, and additions to, the chiton fauna of north-west Tasmania, together with a brief review of the genus Stenochiton. Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 1926: 92-117 [Date published 10 Feb. 1927] [101] [introduced as a variety of Kopionella matthewsi (Iredale, 1910)].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) SAMA D12115 3 specimens, Penguin, TAS.

 

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. [312]

 

Distribution

States

South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

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), 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)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

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

Ecological Descriptors

Rock reef, sublittoral.

Extra Ecological Information

On sides and tops of rocks, encrusted.

 

General References

Willan, R.C. 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] (the record of this species, as Kopionella matthewsi, from New Zealand, by , is erroneous, being based on an unusual specimen of Plaxiphora caelata (Reeves, 1847))

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
13-Oct-2015	POLYPLACOPHORA	01-Oct-2015	MODIFIED	Ms Anouk Mututantri (AM)
		12-Feb-2010	(import)