Reference List for Chiton Pages
Appeltans
W., Bouchet P., Boxshall G.A., De Broyer C., de Voogd N.J., Gordon
D.P., Hoeksema B.W., Horton T., Kennedy M., Mees J., Poore 
     G.C.B., Read G., Stöhr S., Walter T.C., Costello M.J. (eds)
(2015).  World Register of Marine Species. Last accessed at
     http://www.marinespecies.org on 2024-7-2.
Bouchet
P., Rocroi J.P., Frýda J., Hausdorf B., Ponder W., Valdés Á. &
Warén A. (2005). "Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families". 
     Malacologia:  International Journal of Malacology (Hackenheim, Germany: Conchbooks) 47 (1-2): 1-397. Last accessed at 
     http://www.wikipedia.org on 2012-10-30.
Clark
R.N., Coan E.V., Draeger A., Eernisse D.J., Hocheberg F.G., Lindberg D.R.,
McLean J.H., Reid D., Shimek R.L., Shullman D.J.,
     Valentich-Scott P.,
Carlton J.T. ed, (2007) The Light and Smith Manual: Intertidal invertebrates from central California to Oregon, ed. 4. University
     of California Press, Los Angeles. Pp. 701-713.
Clark R.N. (2008). "Mopalia kennerleyi Carpenter, 1864, a forgotten species and its southern analogue Mopalia ciliata (Sowerby, 1840)". American 
     Malacological Bulletin 25(1): 71-76.
Eernisse D.J. (1986). "The Genus Lepidochitona Gray, 1821 (Mollusca: Polyplacophora) in the Northeastern Pacific Ocean (Oregonian and 
     Californian Provinces)". Zoologische Verhandelingen 228. 
Harbo R.M. (1997). Shells & Shellfish of the Pacific Northwest. Harbor Publishing. 
Kelly R.P. & Eernisse D.J. (2008). "Reconstructing a radiation: the chiton genus Mopalia in the north Pacific". Invertebrate Systematics, 22: 17-28.
Lamb A. & Hanby B.P. (2005). Marine Life of the Pacific Northwest. Harbor Publishing.
Stebbins
T.D. & Eernisse D.J. (2009). "Chitons (Mollusca: Polyplacophora) known
from benthic monitoring programs in the Southern California 
     Bight". The Festivus (Special Issue) Vol. 41(6): 53-100.  
 
        Special thanks to Dr. Doug Eernisse for helping us with identifications and the current
taxonomy.                This page last revised:  7-2-2024