Tonicina zschaui (Pfeffer, 1886)

Zettler, Michael L. & Bick, Andreas, 2025, Molluscs from a shallow bay of King George Island (Antarctica, South Shetland Islands): An annotated checklist with new distributional records, Zootaxa 5631 (3), pp. 401-450 : 443

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scientific name	Tonicina zschaui (Pfeffer, 1886)
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59. Tonicina zschaui (Pfeffer, 1886) View in CoL [ Figs 19G–I View FIGURE 19 ]

Chiton zschaui Pfeffer, 1886: 105 , pl. 3, fig. 2 [in Martens & Pfeffer 1886]

Material examined. • 1 spm, Stn. 6; • 2 spms, Stn. 7; • 22 spms, Stn. 9; • 1 spm, Stn. 13.

Type locality. South Georgia.

Bathymetric distribution. 0–100 m.

Substrate. Hard bottom.

Geographical distribution. ANTARCTICA: Antarctic Peninsula. SUBANTARCTICA: -. SCOTIA ARC: South Georgia, South Shetland Islands. SOUTH AMERICA: -.

Remarks. We found it in Ardley Cove in depths between 0 and 100 m. It was already known from Fildes Strait and Ardley Cove by previous studies in depths between 3 and 30 m.

References. Thiele (1906), Bergenheyn (1937), Kaas & van Belle (1985b), Götting (1993), Aldea et al. (2016).