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Mopalia mucosa (?) [Mossy Chiton]
Oval chiton 6cm (2.5 inches) long with eight whitish valves and a fuzzy brown girdle with prominent spines (setae; zoom into the photo) that covers only a small portion of the valves.
Exposed in intertidal Zone 2 under rocky ledge at low tide together with agg. anemones and turban snails (one atop the chiton).
Chitons having so many species and such a variety of appearance, this specimen is submitted for validation. Source for ID: Polyplacophora (Ee_Clark_Draeger_Light_Smith_07) at http://biology.fullerton.edu/deernisse/p....
Spotted on May 18, 2014
Submitted on May 18, 2014
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