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Tonicella
Sign in to saveTonicella is a genus of chitons known as the lined chitons.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumMollusca
- ClassPolyplacophora
- OrderChitonida
- FamilyTonicellidae
Habitatmarine
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 108
- With media
- 27
- Family
- Tonicellidae
- Collections
- LACM, UCMP, USNM, RBINS-SCIENTIFIC HERITAGE, PRI, SBMNH
- Recorded in
- United States, Canada, France, Sweden
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Ischnochitonidae
- Image
- Tonicella-lineata.jpg
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- Commons category
- Tonicella
- taxon name
- Tonicella
- taxon rank
- genus
- topic's main category
- Category:Tonicella
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Tonicella is a genus of chitons known as the lined chitons.
The genus name derives from the Greek tonos (something stretched, a brace, a strain) and cell (diminutive).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Tonicella” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.