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Tonicia
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Species
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumMollusca
- ClassPolyplacophora
- OrderChitonida
- FamilyChitonidae
Habitatmarine
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 206
- With media
- 22
- Family
- Chitonidae
- Collections
- RBINS-SCIENTIFIC HERITAGE
- Recorded in
- Australia, New Zealand, New Caledonia, Fiji, Hong Kong, Sar China, French Polynesia, Indonesia, Vietnam
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Tonicia is a genus of chitons in the subfamily Toniciinae of 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. 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).
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