Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Phylum Mollusca > Class Polyplacophora > Subclass Neoloricata > Order Chitonida > Suborder Acanthochitonina > Superfamily Mopalioidea > Family Mopaliidae > Subfamily Mopaliinae > Genus Tonicella

Tonicella rubra (Linnaeus, 1767)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Tonicella*	Carpenter, 1873	accepted genus name

Species group names

*Chiton ruber*	Linnaeus, 1767	basionym
*Boreochiton ruber*	(Linnaeus, 1767)	synonym
*Chiton incarnatus*	Reeve, 1848	synonym
*Chiton latus*	Leach, 1852	synonym
*Chiton minimus*	Spengler, 1797	synonym
*Chiton ruber*	Linnaeus, 1767	synonym
*Chiton ruber var. oblonga*	Jeffreys, 1865	synonym
*Tonicella rubra var. index*	Balch, 1906	synonym

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Bokmål (Norwegian): rødleddsnegl sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Danish: rød skallus sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

English: northern red chiton sources: North-West Atlantic Ocean species (NWARMS)

French: chiton rouge du Nord sources: Bousfield, E.L. 1964. Coquillages des cotes canadiennes de l'Atlantique. > Musée national du Canada, Ottawa. 89 p.

German: rote Käferschnecke sources: Unterwasser-Welt Ostsee

Norwegian: rødleddsnegl sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Norwegian Bokmål: rødleddsnegl sources: Systema naturae ed. 12: 1107.

Norwegian Nynorsk: marmorleddsnigel sources: Systema naturae ed. 12: 1107.

Nynorsk (Norwegian): marmorleddsnigel sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Swedish: Linnés ledsnäcka

Literature

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
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.
additional source	Dyntaxa (2013) Swedish Taxonomic Database. Accessed at www.dyntaxa.se [15-01-2013].
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.
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.
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.
additional source	ITIS database
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

Genbank

Taxonomy

CLEMAM
WoRMS

External Links

Barcode of Life
Biodiversity Heritage Library (13 publications)
USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection
GenBank (6 nucleotides; 6 proteins)
GBIF

Citation

Gofas, S. (2014). Tonicella rubra (Linnaeus, 1767). In: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2014) European Register of Marine Species, accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:140152