Species Scutellastra chapmani (Tenison-Woods, 1876)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Patella chapmani Tenison-Woods, J.E. 1876. Description of new Tasmanian shells. Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 1875: 131–159 [Date published 21 Mar 1876] [157].

  Secondary source:

   Powell, A.W.B. 1973. The patellid limpets of the world (Patellidae). Indo-Pacific Mollusca 3(15): 75-206 [138]; Wilson, B. 1993. Australian Marine Shells. Prosobranch Gastropods. Kallaroo, Western Australia : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 1 408 pp. [36].
• Patella octoradiata Hutton, F.W. 1873. Manual of the New Zealand Mollusca. A Systematic and Descriptive Catalogue of the Marine and land shells, and of the soft Mollusks and Polyzoa of New Zealand and the ajacent Islands. Wellington : James Hughes, Lambton Quay 224 pp. [44].

  Secondary source:

   Powell, A.W.B. 1973. The patellid limpets of the world (Patellidae). Indo-Pacific Mollusca 3(15): 75-206 [138].
• Acmaea alba Tenison-Woods, J.E. 1877. On some new Tasmanian marine shells. Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 1876: 131–159 [Date published 27 Feb 1877] [155].

  Secondary source:

   Powell, A.W.B. 1973. The patellid limpets of the world (Patellidae). Indo-Pacific Mollusca 3(15): 75-206 [138]; Wilson, B. 1993. Australian Marine Shells. Prosobranch Gastropods. Kallaroo, Western Australia : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 1 408 pp. [36].
• Acmaea saccharina perplexa Pilsbry, H.A. 1891. Acmaeidae, Lepetidae, Patellidae, Titiscaniidae. Parts 49–52. xiii 195 pp., 74 pls in Tyron, G.W. (ed.). Manual of Conchology. Philadelphia : Conchological Section, Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. [50] [pl. 36, figs 69, 71].

  Secondary source:

   Powell, A.W.B. 1973. The patellid limpets of the world (Patellidae). Indo-Pacific Mollusca 3(15): 75-206 [138]; Wilson, B. 1993. Australian Marine Shells. Prosobranch Gastropods. Kallaroo, Western Australia : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 1 408 pp. [36].

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Powell, A.W.B. 1973. The patellid limpets of the world (Patellidae). Indo-Pacific Mollusca 3(15): 75-206 [137]
• Wilson, B. 1993. Australian Marine Shells. Prosobranch Gastropods. Kallaroo, Western Australia : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 1 408 pp. [36]

 

Generic Combinations

• Patellanax alba (Tenison-Woods, 1877). —
  Cotton, B.C. 1959. South Australian Mollusca. Archaeogastropoda. Handbook of the Flora and Fauna of South Australia. Adelaide : South Australian Government Printer 449 pp. [288]
• Scutellastra chapmani (Tenison-Woods, 1876). —
  Lindberg, D.R. 2007. Reproduction, ecology, and evolution of the Indo-Pacific Limpet Scutellastra flexuosa. Bulletin of Marine Science 81(2): 219–234
• Patellanax chapmani (Tenison-Woods, 1876). —
  Macpherson, J.H. 1955. Preliminary revision of the families Patellidae and Acmaeidae in Australia. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria 67(2): 229-256 [231]
  Macpherson, J.H. & Gabriel, C.J. 1962. Marine molluscs of Victoria. Melbourne : Melbourne University Press & National Museum of Victoria 475 pp. [45]
• Patella perplexa (Pilsbry, 1891). —
  Iredale, T. 1924. Results from Roy Bell's molluscan collections. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 49(3): 179–279, pls 33–36 [238]

 

Miscellaneous Literature Names

• Patella (Scutellastra) chapmani Tenison-Woods, 1876. —
  Wilson, B. 1993. Australian Marine Shells. Prosobranch Gastropods. Kallaroo, Western Australia : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 1 408 pp. [36]

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Northern NSW to Dongara, WA.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

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), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39)

Ecological Descriptors

Lower intertidal, marine, rock bottom.

 

General References

Allan, J.K. 1950. Australian shells: with related animals living in the sea, in freshwater and on the land. Melbourne : Georgian House xix, 470 pp., 45 pls, 112 text figs. [78]

Lindberg, D.R. 2007. Reproduction, ecology, and evolution of the Indo-Pacific Limpet Scutellastra flexuosa. Bulletin of Marine Science 81(2): 219–234 (included in analysis)

Nakano, T. & Ozawa, T. 2007. Worldwide phylogeography of limpets of the order Patellogastropoda: molecular, morphological and Palaeontological evidence. Journal of Molluscan Studies 73: 79–99 (included in analysis)

Oliver, W.R.B. 1924. The Australian Eight-rayed Limpet (Scutellastra chapmani Tenison-Woods). New Zealand Journal of Science and Technology 7(4): 244 [244]

Powell, A.W.B. 1973. The patellid limpets of the world (Patellidae). Indo-Pacific Mollusca 3(15): 75-206 [137]

Thornley, G. 1945. Limpets of New South Wales. Proceedings of the Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales 1944-1945: 22-30 [Date published August 31] [28]

Verco, J.C. 1912. Notes on the marine shells of Western Australia. Part II. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 36: 192-205 [194] (misidentification)

 

Common Name References

Macpherson, J.H. & Gabriel, C.J. 1962. Marine molluscs of Victoria. Melbourne : Melbourne University Press & National Museum of Victoria 475 pp. [45] (for Patellanax chapmani) (Chapman's Limpet)

Oliver, W.R.B. 1924. The Australian Eight-rayed Limpet (Scutellastra chapmani Tenison-Woods). New Zealand Journal of Science and Technology 7(4): 244 [244] (for Scutellastra chapmani) (Eight-rayed Limpet)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
09-May-2012	EOGASTROPODA	09-May-2012	MOVED	Mr Des Beechey (AM) Stephanie Baccarella (AM) Dr Peter Middelfart (AM) Dr Winston Ponder (AM)
09-May-2012		25-Apr-2012	MOVED
		15-Jul-2014	MODIFIED