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Tonicia (Lucilina) pacifica Kaas & Van Belle, 1998
1444766 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1444766)
unaccepted > superseded combination
Species
Tonicia (Lucilina) Dall, 1882 accepted as Lucilina Dall, 1882
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Kaas, P. & Van Belle, R. A. (1998). Catalogue of living chitons (Mollusca, Polyplacophora). second, revised edition. 1-204; Backhyus Publishers Leiden.
page(s): 137 [details]
page(s): 137 [details]
Type locality contained in Moorea
type locality contained in Moorea [details]
Nomenclature Under ICZN Art. 15.2, the name Tonicia indica var. pacifica Leloup, 1981 is nomenclaturally unavailable. Kaas & Van Belle...
Nomenclature Under ICZN Art. 15.2, the name Tonicia indica var. pacifica Leloup, 1981 is nomenclaturally unavailable. Kaas & Van Belle (1998) ranked pacifica as a valid species and refered to Leloup's 1981 description. They thus became the author of the name. [details]
MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Tonicia (Lucilina) pacifica Kaas & Van Belle, 1998. Accessed at: https://www.molluscabase.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1444766 on 2025-09-12
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original description
Kaas, P. & Van Belle, R. A. (1998). Catalogue of living chitons (Mollusca, Polyplacophora). second, revised edition. 1-204; Backhyus Publishers Leiden.
page(s): 137 [details]
additional source Kaas P., Van Belle R.A. & Strack H. 2006. Monograph of living chitons (Mollusca: Polyplacaphora); volume 6: Suborder Ischnochitonina (concluded); Schizochitonidae & Chitonidae, additions to volumes 1-5. Brill, Leiden, 464 pp., available online at https://books.google.com/books?id=ltD7EAAAQBAJ
page(s): 357, fig. 150 [details]
page(s): 137 [details]
additional source Kaas P., Van Belle R.A. & Strack H. 2006. Monograph of living chitons (Mollusca: Polyplacaphora); volume 6: Suborder Ischnochitonina (concluded); Schizochitonidae & Chitonidae, additions to volumes 1-5. Brill, Leiden, 464 pp., available online at https://books.google.com/books?id=ltD7EAAAQBAJ
page(s): 357, fig. 150 [details]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
From editor or global species database
Nomenclature Under ICZN Art. 15.2, the name Tonicia indica var. pacifica Leloup, 1981 is nomenclaturally unavailable. Kaas & Van Belle (1998) ranked pacifica as a valid species and refered to Leloup's 1981 description. They thus became the author of the name. [details]
