Ischnochitonidae – Ischnochitoninae: Ischnochiton (Ischnochiton) elongatus (Blainville, 1825) (‘lengthened chiton’)
Synonym(s): elongatus Blainville, 1825.
Typical shell-length 35 mm. Lives intertidally and subtidally under rocks and stones, especially those embedded in sand and on moderately exposed shores. Native. Endemic to southeastern and southwestern Australia (NSW, TAS, VIC, SA and WA).
Classification
Class: Polyplacophora
Subclass: Chelodina
Order: Neoloricata
Superfamily: Ischnochitonina
Family: Ischnochitonidae
Subfamily: Ischnochitoninae
Genus: Ischnochiton
Localities for Ischnochiton elongatus
Beechford: foreshore
Boat Harbour: beach
Burnie: Sulphur Creek
Burnie (unlocalised)
Cape Portland: Petal Point
Cape Portland (unlocalised)
Clifton Beach (unlocalised)
Flinders Island: Lady Barron: Fisher Island
Frederick Henry Bay (unlocalised)
Greens Beach: Friend Point
King Island: Currie Harbour
King Island: Grassy Harbour
King Island: Naracoopa: foreshore
Koonya: Shelly Beach
Leith: Lillico Beach
Louisville: Alginate Bay
Maria Island: Darlington Bay
Marrawah: Green Point
Narawntapu: Badger Head
Pipers Head
Port Arthur (unlocalised)
Port Latta: Cowrie Point
Port Sorell (unlocalised)
Rocky Cape: Mary Anne Cove area
South Bruny Island: Adventure Bay: Grass Point
Stanley: Godfreys Beach
Strahan: Cape Sorell
Swansea: Coswell Beach
Tamar River: Kelso: foreshore
Tasmania (unlocalised)
Wynyard: Fossil Bluff