WoRMS taxon details
Tonicella rubra (Linnaeus, 1767)
AphiaID: 140152
AphiaID: 140152
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Polyplacophora (Class) > Neoloricata (Subclass) > Chitonida (Order) > Acanthochitonina (Suborder) > Mopalioidea (Superfamily) > Mopaliidae (Family) > Mopaliinae (Subfamily) > Tonicella (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Parent | Tonicella Carpenter, 1873 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Boreochiton ruber (Linnaeus, 1767) Chiton cinereus Fabricius, 1780 non Linnaeus, 1797 (synonym) Chiton incarnatus Reeve, 1848 (synonym) Chiton latus Leach, 1852 (synonym) Chiton minimus Spengler, 1797 non Gmelin, 1791 (synonym) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sources |
basis of record: Gofas, S.; Le Renard, J.; Bouchet, P. (2001). Mollusca, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 180-213 (look up in IMIS) [details] additional source: Brunel, P., Bosse, L. & Lamarche, G. (1998). Catalogue of the marine invertebrates of the estuary and Gulf of St. Lawrence. Canadian Special Publication of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 126. 405 p. (look up in IMIS) [details] additional source: Trott, T.J. 2004. Cobscook Bay inventory: a historical checklist of marine invertebrates spanning 162 years. Northeastern Naturalist (Special Issue 2): 261 - 324. [details] additional source: Muller, Y. (2004). Faune et flore du littoral du Nord, du Pas-de-Calais et de la Belgique: inventaire. [Coastal fauna and flora of the Nord, Pas-de-Calais and Belgium: inventory]. Commission Régionale de Biologie Région Nord Pas-de-Calais: France. 307 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] additional source: Dyntaxa (2013) Swedish Taxonomic Database. Accessed at www.dyntaxa.se [15-01-2013]., available online at http://www.dyntaxa.se [details] additional source: Backeljau, T. (1986). Lijst van de recente mariene mollusken van België [List of the recent marine molluscs of Belgium]. Koninklijk Belgisch Instituut voor Natuurwetenschappen: Brussels, Belgium. 106 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] additional source: ITIS database, available online at http://www.itis.gov [details] additional source: Linnaeus, C. (1767). Systema naturae sive regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Laurentii Salvii, Holmiae. 12th ed. v. 1 (pt 2): 533-1327, available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/83650#5 [details] [full text] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Environment | marine | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Distribution | Arctic Ocean [details] Barents Sea [details] Belgian Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Brier Island [details] British Isles [details] Cobscook Bay [details] Digby [details] European waters (ERMS scope) [details] Greenlandic Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Greens Point [details] Gulf of Maine [details] Gulf of St. Lawrence [details] Icelandic Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Irish Exclusive economic Zone [details] Joes Point [details] Mispec [details] North Coast of Norway [details] North West Atlantic [details] Norwegian Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Saint Martins [details] Swedish Exclusive Economic Zone [details] United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Wimereux (not certain) [details] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Feedingtypes |
deposit feeder: subsurface [details]
grazer [details] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Links | To Barcode of Life To Biodiversity Heritage Library (13 publications) To CLEMAM To Dyntaxa To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (6 nucleotides; 6 proteins) To Marine Species Identification Portal To PESI To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection To ITIS | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Notes |
Diet: herbivores [details] Dimensions: 12 to 25 mm [details] Distribution: northern Gaspe waters, southern Gaspe waters (Baie des Chaleurs, Gaspe Bay to American, Orphan and Bradelle banks; eastern boundary: Eastern Bradelle Valley), downstream part of middle St. Lawrence estuary, Magdalen Islands (from the eastern Bradelle valley to the west, as far as Cape North, including the Cape Braton Channel), lower St. Lawrence estuary, Prince Edward Island (from the northern tip of Miscou Island, N.B. to Cape Breton Island south of Cheticamp, including the Northumberland Strait and Georges Bay to the Canso Strait causeway), lower North Shore; western slope of Newfoundland, including the southern part of the Strait of Belle Isle but excluding the upper 50m in the area southwest of Newfoundland; Cobscook Bay [details] Habitat: intertidal, infralittoral and circalittoral of the Gulf and estuary [details] Reproduction: sexes are separate but they are indistinguishable externally. fertilization is external and usually the eggs are shed into the water [details] Taxonomy: Family: Tonicellidae, according to Trott (2004). [details] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:140152 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Citation: Gofas, S. (2013). Tonicella rubra (Linnaeus, 1767). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=140152 on 2013-05-23 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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