''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 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 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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