Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Mollusca > Class Polyplacophora > Subclass Neoloricata > Order Chitonida > Suborder Acanthochitonina > Superfamily Mopalioidea > Family Tonicellidae

Tonicellinae Simroth, 1894

Rank: Subfamily
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Subfamily group names

Lepidochitoninae Iredale, 1914 synonym

Children

Boreochiton G. O. Sars, 1878
Lepidochitona J. E. Gray, 1821
Nuttallina Dall, 1871
Tonicella P. P. Carpenter, 1873

Literature

original description

Simroth, H. (1892-1895). Dr H.G. Bronn's Klassen und Ordnungen des Thier-Reichs, wissenschaftlich dargestellt in Wort und Bild. Bd. 3, Mollusca, Abt. 1: Amphineura und Scaphopoda. Leipzig: Winter. 467 pp., pls 1-22.

taxonomy source

Sirenko B.I. 1993. Revision of the system of the order Chitonida (Molluscs: Polyplacophora) on the basis of correlation between the type of gills arrangement and the shape of the chorion processes. Ruthenica 3: 93-117 [In Russian]

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Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Tonicellinae Simroth, 1894. Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:385537

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Occurrence

 Present  Absent  Doubtful  Native  Introduced  Naturalised  Invasive  Managed  No data

Environment


marine, not brackish, not fresh, not terrestrial

Importance

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Last modified

2019-06-25 by Philippe Bouchet

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