''Tonicella'' is a genus of
chitons known as the lined chitons.
[MolluscaBase eds. (2022). MolluscaBase. Tonicella Carpenter, 1873. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=138090 on 2022-06-22]
The genus name derives from the
Greek
Greek may refer to:
Greece
Anything of, from, or related to Greece, a country in Southern Europe:
*Greeks, an ethnic group.
*Greek language, a branch of the Indo-European language family.
**Proto-Greek language, the assumed last common ancestor ...
''tonos'' (something stretched, a brace, a strain) and ''cell'' (diminutive).
AFSC/RACE – Lined Chiton, Tonicella lineata
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Species
Species within the genus ''Tonicella'' include:
* ''Tonicella insignis
''Tonicella insignis'', the white-lined chiton, or red chiton, also known as the hidden chiton, belongs to the Tonicellidae family in the class Polyplacophora, and the phylum of Mollusca. Its body length of T. insignis is around 5 cm.
Habit ...
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* ''Tonicella lineata
''Tonicella lineata'', commonly known as the lined chiton, is a species of chiton from the North Pacific.
Size and description
''Tonicella lineata'' is a very colorful chiton, having blue, purple or black straight or zig-zag lines on each of the ...
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* '' Tonicella lokii''
* ''Tonicella marmorea
''Tonicella marmorea'' is a species of chiton, a polyplacophoran mollusc found in the Arctic Ocean and the North Atlantic Ocean. It was first described by the Danish missionary and naturalist Otto Fabricius.
Description
''Tonicella marmorea' ...
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* '' Tonicella rubra''
* '' Tonicella sitkensis''
* '' Tonicella submarmorea''
* '' Tonicella undocaerulea''
* '' Tonicella venusta''
References
* Vaught, K.C.; Tucker Abbott, R.; Boss, K.J. (1989). A classification of the living Mollusca. American Malacologists: Melbourne. ISBN 0-915826-22-4. XII, 195 pp.
* Stebbins, T. D.; Eernisse, D. J. (2009). Chitons (Mollusca: Polyplacophora) known from benthic monitoring programs in the Southern California Bight. The Festivus. 41 (6): 53–100, errata.
External links
Gofas, S.; Le Renard, J.; Bouchet, P. (2001). Mollusca. in: Costello, M.J. et al. (eds), European Register of Marine Species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Patrimoines Naturels. 50: 180-213.
Ischnochitonidae
Taxa named by Philip Pearsall Carpenter
Chiton genera
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