Tonicella Carpenter 1873

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:

• Tonicella insignis
• Tonicella lineata
• 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.