Tonicella

Tonicella
Tonicella lineata live and in situ, anterior end towards the right
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Polyplacophora
Order: Chitonida
Family: Tonicellidae
Genus: Tonicella
Carpenter, 1873
Type species
Chiton marmoreus Fabricius, 1780
Species

See text.

Tonicella is a genus of chitons known as the lined chitons.[1]

The genus name derives from the Greek tonos (something stretched, a brace, a strain) and cell (diminutive).[2]

Species

Species within the genus Tonicella include:

Image Scientific name Distribution
Tonicella insignis coastal region of Alaska to Oregon in North America[3][4] The shell protects themselves from predators by blending their body into the environment. The special white line on T. insignis is one of the most distinguish characteristic which only exist on the second to the seventh valve.[5]
Tonicella lineata from the Aleutian Islands of Alaska to San Miguel Island of California, as well as the Sea of Okhotsk of Russia and northern Japan.
Tonicella lokii Eastern Central Pacific
Tonicella marmorea the Arctic Ocean and the North Atlantic Ocean.
Tonicella solidior
Tonicella squamigera
Tonicella submarmorea Sea of Okhotsk
Tonicella undocaerulea from Kodiak, Alaska to Point Conception, California.
Tonicella venusta Monterey Bay, California
Tonicella zotini

References

  1. ^ 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
  2. ^ AFSC/RACE – Lined Chiton, Tonicella lineata
  3. ^ "Tonicella insignis". inverts.wallawalla.edu. Retrieved 2024-05-08.
  4. ^ Lamb, Andy & Handy, Bernard P. Marine Life of the Pacific Northwest Harbour Publishing 2005
  5. ^ Himmelman, J. H. (1979). "Factors regulating the reproductive cycles of two northeast pacific chitons, Tonicella lineata and T. insignis". Marine Biology. 50 (3): 215–225. doi:10.1007/BF00394203. ISSN 0025-3162.
  • 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.


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