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  Family 
  Chito 
  nidae. 
  (Gr. 
  chiton, 
  

   of 
  mail 
  Chitons.) 
  

  

  a 
  tunic, 
  gown. 
  Common 
  name: 
  Coat 
  

  

  a) 
  Genus 
  C 
  hiton 
  Linne 
  

   1758."TMasc.) 
  

  

  "b 
  ) 
  Genus 
  A 
  canthopleura 
  

   Guilding 
  1829VTGr 
  , 
  

   acantha, 
  spine, 
  thorn 
  

   -(- 
  pleura, 
  sides. 
  

   Girdle 
  covered 
  with 
  

   spines. 
  Fem. 
  ) 
  

  

  c 
  ) 
  Genus 
  Tonicia 
  Gray 
  

   1847. 
  (Name 
  arbitra- 
  

   rily 
  chosen 
  "by 
  Gray 
  

   for 
  its 
  euphonic 
  

   sound. 
  Derived 
  from 
  

   tonic. 
  Tonicia 
  dif- 
  

   fers 
  from 
  Tonicella 
  I 
  

   in 
  having 
  pectinated 
  I 
  

   insertion 
  plates. 
  1 
  

   Feminine.) 
  i 
  

  

  Chiton 
  marmoratua 
  Linne 
  (marbled; 
  color 
  

   olive 
  to 
  dark 
  brown 
  or 
  purple 
  brown; 
  

   girdle 
  alternately 
  green 
  and 
  light 
  blue^ 
  

  

  Chiton 
  squamosus 
  Linne 
  (Lat. 
  scaly; 
  cov- 
  

   ered 
  with 
  scales 
  or 
  granules; 
  sides 
  

   beaded.) 
  C 
  hiton 
  vir 
  i 
  dis 
  Spengler 
  (green; 
  

   color 
  frora~gray-v/hite 
  to 
  olive) 
  is 
  the 
  

   same 
  species. 
  

  

  Chiton 
  tuberculatus 
  Linne 
  (with 
  tubercles, 
  

   Riblets 
  bear 
  low 
  tubercles.) 
  

  

  Aca 
  n 
  thopleura 
  granulata 
  Gmelin 
  (granula- 
  

   ted; 
  granulated 
  all 
  over."] 
  

  

  Tonicia 
  schrammi 
  Shuttleworth 
  ( 
  Schramm' 
  s 
  ; 
  

   named 
  for 
  A. 
  Schramm 
  of 
  Paris 
  and 
  Guade- 
  

   loupe, 
  a 
  conchologist 
  who 
  died 
  in 
  1876.) 
  

  

  