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Parachiton puppis Hull 1923

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Parachiton puppis Hull, 1923

(Figure 1 B)

Chresonymy and synonymy in Gowlett-Holmes (1990: 95).

Parachiton puppis Hull 1923: 158, pl. 24, figs 1–5; Joyce 1959: 231; Iredale & McMichael 1962: 28; Kaas & Van Belle 1998: 153; Slieker 2000: 102, pl. 39, fig. 5; Schwabe 2001: 27.

Lepidopleurus puppis; Ashby 1926: 380.

Parachiton verconis Cotton & Weeding 1939: 183, pl. 7, fig. 2 (holotype SAMA D11689; type locality: South Australia, Nuyts Archipelago, St Francis Island [32°30’S 133°17’E], not seen); Gowlett-Holmes 1990: 95, fig. 3C; 2001: 75; Kaas & Van Belle 1998: 196.

Lepidopleurus (Parachiton) verconis; Laghi, Russo & Dell’Angelo 1980: 4.

Lepidopleurus (Parachiton) puppis; Laghi, Russo & Dell’Angelo 1980: 4.

Leptochiton (Parachiton) verconis; Cesari 1987: 13.

Leptochiton (Parachiton) puppis; Gowlett-Holmes 1990: 95, figs 1–3; 1998a: 179, fig. 3.31; 2001: 75; Kaas & Van Belle 1998: 153.

Locus typicus: Australia, New South Wales, Vaucluse [32°10’S 146°32’E], Bottle and Glass Point, under stones in sand, or mud below low water mark.

Primary type: Holotype (AMS C.49540), examined from colour pictures provided by Ian Loch.

Type (s) without name-bearing function: One paratype (AMS C.149663).

Material examined: UF 297662: 1 adult spm, Viti Levu, Man Friday Resort, 80 km west of Suva [18°10’S 177°40’E], 0–2 m, fringing reef, freely moving on undersides of rocks, leg. Holthuis, B. & Gustav Paulay, 0 2 February 1989 (BFIJI-428), wet; ZSM Mol 20062092: 1 valve, Viti Levu, Laucala Bay, west and north side of Nukumbutho Island 18°10.474'S 178°28.343'E; extracted from sand, collected in 1 m, leg. Enrico Schwabe, 21 August 2006, dry.

Habitat: The species seems to have the same habitat preference as the preceeding species.

Distribution: Gowlett-Holmes (1990: 96) reported the species from “South-eastern Australia, from Vaucluse, central N.S.W. to Nuyts Archipelago, western S. Aust.” and later (2001: 75) she emphasized that the species is endemic to Australia. Schwabe (2001: 27) showed that the species also occurs in the Samoan Islands.

Remarks: This is the first record of this species from Fiji.

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Published as part of Schwabe, Enrico, Sirenko, Boris I. & Seeto, Johnson, 2008, A checklist of Polyplacophora (Mollusca) from the Fiji islands, pp. 1-52 in Zootaxa 1777 on page 6, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.274284

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Biodiversity

Family
Leptochitonidae
Genus
Parachiton
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Lepidopleurida
Phylum
Mollusca
Scientific name authorship
Hull
Species
puppis
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Parachiton puppis Hull, 1923 sec. Schwabe, Sirenko & Seeto, 2008

References

  • Hull, A. F. B. (1923) New Australian Polyplacophora and notes on the distribution of certain species 1, I. The Australian Zoologist, 3, 157 - 166, pls 24 - 26.
  • Gowlett-Holmes, K. L. (1990) On the taxonomic status of the Australian chiton Parachiton verconis (Cotton & Weeding, 1939) (Mollusca: Polyplacophora: Leptochitonidae). Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of South Australia, 114, 95 - 97.
  • Joyce, A. (1959) Australian shells: with related animals living in the sea, in freshwater, and on the land, Boston, Branford, 487 pp.
  • Iredale, T. & McMichael, D. F. (1962) A reference list of the marine Mollusca of New South Wales. The Australian Museum, Sydney Memoir, 11, 1 - 109.
  • Kaas, P. & Van Belle, R. A. (1998) Catalogue of living chitons (Mollusca, Polyplacophora). Second, revised edition, W. Backhyus Publishers, Leiden, 204 pp.
  • Slieker, F. J. A. (2000) Chitons of the world. An illustrated synopsis of recent Polyplacophora, L'Informatore Piceno, i - vi, 154 pp.
  • Ashby, E. (1926) The regional distribution of Australian chitons (Polyplacophora). Report of the 17 th Meeting of the Australian Association of Advanced Sciences 1924, Proceedings of section D, 366 - 394.
  • Cotton, B. C. & Weeding, B. J. (1939) Flindersian loricates. Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of South Australia, 63, 180 - 199, pl. 7.