Tonicia

Tonicia is a genus of chitons in the family Chitonidae. The genus was recently restricted to include only 12 New World species, with the more species-rich and exclusively Old World subgenus Lucilina Dall, 1882, being elevated to a separate genus.[1] Of these 12, ten species are found in the eastern Pacific, one in the Magellan province (southern Chile, Argentina and Falkland Islands) and one in the Caribbean Sea (Florida to Barbados). However, a study published in 2019 which used molecular systematics to compare the eastern Pacific Tonicia species suggested that there are only 9 extant species in the eastern Pacific.[2]

Tonicia
Tonicia elegans from Peru
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Polyplacophora
Order:
Chitonida
Family:
Chitonidae
Genus:
Tonicia

Gray, 1847
Species

See text.

Species
  • Tonicia arnheimi
  • Tonicia atrata Sowerby, 1840
  • Tonicia calbucensis Plate, 1898
  • Tonicia chilensis Frembly, 1827
  • Tonicia disjuncta Frembly, 1827
  • Tonicia 'elegans' Frembly, 1827
  • Tonicia forbesii
  • Tonicia fremblyana Kaas, 1956
  • Tonicia lebruni de Rochebrune, 1884
  • Tonicia schrammi
  • Tonicia smithi Leloup, 1980
  • Tonicia swainsoni Sowerby in Broderip & Sowerby, 1832

References
  1. Schwabe E.; Sirenko B. I.; Johnson S. (2008). "A checklist of Polyplacophora (Mollusca) from the Fiji Islands". Zootaxa. 1777: 1–52.
  2. Ibáñez, Christian M.; Eernisse, Douglas J.; Méndez, Marco A.; Valladares, Moises; Sellanes, Javier; Sirenko, Boris I.; Pardo-Gandarillas, M. Cecilia (2019). "Phylogeny, divergence times and species delimitation of Tonicia (Polyplacophora: Chitonidae) from the eastern Pacific Ocean". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 186 (4): 915–933. doi:10.1093/zoolinnean/zlz006.
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