SELECTED CHITONS
OF AUSTRALIA



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Callochiton crocinus (Reeve, 1847)
ISCHNOCHITONIDAE
Range: West Australia to southern Queensland & Tasmania (intertidal)



Ischnochiton (Haploplax) adelaidensis (Reeve, 1847)
ISCHNOCHITONIDAE
Range: Queensland, Papua-New Guinea (intetidal)



Ischnochiton (Ischnoradsia) australis (Sowerby, 1840)
ISCHNOCHITONIDAE
Range: South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, New South Wales (intertidal to 6 m.)



Ischnochiton contractus (Reeve, 1847)
ISCHNOCHITONIDAE
Range: Southern West Australia to East Victoria & northern Tasmania (subtidal)



Ischnochiton (Heterozona) fruiticosus (Gould, 1846)
ISCHNOCHITONIDAE
Range: Victoria, New South Wales & Queensland (intertidal)



Ischnochiton torri Iredale & May, 1916
ISCHNOCHITONIDAE
Range: South and southern West Australia, Victoria & Tasmania (intertidal to subtidal)



Ischnochiton versicolor (Sowerby, 1840)
ISCHNOCHITONIDAE
Range:South Australia, Victoria, Tasmania & New South Wales (intertidal)



Ischnochiton lineolatus (de Blainville, 1825)
ISCHNOCHITONIDAE
Range: Southern West Australia to eastern Victoria & Tasmania (intertidal to 15m)



Ischnochiton elongatus (de Blainville, 1825)
ISCHNOCHITONIDAE
Range: South Australia to New South Wales & Tasmania (intertidal to 10m)



Ischnochiton (Haploplax) lentiginosus (Sowerby, 1840)
ISCHNOCHITONIDAE
Range: South Australia, Victoria & New South Wales (intertidal)



Ischnochiton (Haploplax) smaragdinus (Angas, 1867)
ISCHNOCHITONIDAE
Range: South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, New South Wales & Queensland (



Ischnochiton variegatus (H. Adams & Angas, 1864)
ISCHNOCHITONIDAE
Range:Southern West Australia to Victoria (intertidal to subtidal)



Ischnochiton (Heterozona) cariosus Carpenter in Pilsbry, 1892
ISCHNOCHITONIDAE
Range:Southern West Australia to northern New South Wales & Tasmania (intertidal to 30m)



Ischnochiton (Haploplax) thomasi Bednall, 1897
ISCHNOCHITONIDAE
Range: Southern West Australia, South Australia & Victoria (intertidal to subtidal)



Stenochiton longicymba (de Blainville, 1825)
ISCHNOCHITONIDAE
Range: Southern West Australia to western Victoria and northern Tasmania



Stenochiton pilsbryanus (Bednall, 1897)
ISCHNOCHITONIDAE
Range: Southern West Australia, South Australia & Victoria (lives on Zostera nana)



Callistochiton antiquus (Reeve, 1847)
ISCHNOCHITONIDAE
Range:Southern West Australia, Victoria, Tasmania, New South Wales & southern Queensland (intertidal)



Plaxiphora albida (de Blainville, 1825)
MOPALIIDAE
Range: West Australia, South Australia, Victoria, Tasmania, New South Wales & southern Queensland (intertidal)



Plaxiphora (Fremblya) matthewsi Iredale, 1910
MOPALIIDAE
Range: West Australia, South Australia, Victoria & Tasmania (intertidal)



Loricella angasi (H.Adams in H.Adams & Angas, 1864)
SCHIZOCHITONIDAE
Range: New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania, South Australia & West Australia (intertidal to subtidal)



Chiton (Rhyssoplax)calliozonus Pilsbry, 1894
CHITONIDAE
Range: Victoria, northern Tasmania, South & West Australia (subtidal)



Chiton (Rhyssoplax) diaphorus (Iredale & May, 1916)
CHITONIDAE
Range: Southern Victoria, Tasmania & South Australia (intertidal to subtidal)



Chiton glaucus Gray, 1828
CHITONIDAE
Range: Southern Tasmania & New Zealand (intertidal)



Chiton (Rhyssoplax) jugosus Gould, 1846
CHITONIDAE
Range: New South Wales & eastern Victoria (intertidal to subtidal)



Chiton pelliserpentis Quoy & Gaimard, 1835
CHITONIDAE
Range: Mew South Wales & southern Tasmania, New Zealand (intertidal)



Chiton (Rhyssoplax) translucens Hedley & Hull, 1909
CHITONIDAE
Range: Southern Queensland & New South Wales (subtidal)



Chiton (Rhyssoplax) tricostalis Pilsbry, 1894
CHITONIDAE
Range: Victoria, northern Tasmania & South to West Australia (intertidal to subtidal)



Acanthopleura gemmata (de Blainville, 1825)
CHITONIDAE
Range: Northern Australia, Indo-Pacific (intertidal)



Acanthopleura spinosa (Bruguiere, 1792)
CHITONIDAE
Range: Central Indo-Pacific region



Liolophura (Claverizona) hirtosa (Peron MS de Blainville, 1825)
CHITONIDAE
Range: Southern West Australia



Squamopleura curtisiana (E.A. Smith, 1884)
CHITONIDAE
Range: North Australia, West Australia to Queensland, Indonesia, Aru Island



Chiton (Rhyssoplax) exoptandus Bednall, 1897
CHITONIDAE
Range: Southern Victoria, Western Australia, South Australia & Tasmania (subtidal)



Tonicia (Lucilina) fortilirata (Reeve, 1847)
CHITONIDAE
Range: Northern West Australia, Northern Territory & Queensland (intertidal)



Onithochiton quercinus (Gould, 1846)
CHITONIDAE
Range: New South Wales to West Australia (intertidal to subtidal)



Cryptoplax mystica Iredale & Hull, 1825
ACANTHOCHITONIDAE
Range: New South Wales (subtidal)



Acanthochitona kimberi (Torr, 1912)
ACANTHOCHITONIDAE
Range: Southern West Australia, South Australia, Victoria, Tasmania & New South Wales (intertidal)



Acanthochitona sueurii (de Blainville, 1825)
ACANTHOCHITONA
Range: Southern West Australia, South Australia, Victoria & Tasmania (intertidal to subtidal)