Friday, March 8, 2024

A chiton with flair

  

Eric snapped this great photo of a Veiled Chiton (Placiphorella velata) during field work this afternoon (8 March 2024).  Impressive how well this species looks like the surrounding habitat rock, coralline algae, and red seaweeds.  This individual even has a little bit of branching coralline algae growing on its shell plates!  

Here's another image from a little farther back:

 
For more information about this intriguing predatory chiton, you can review the post called "A veiled threat" from 21 August 2012.  And there's a beautiful underwater photo in the post called "Camouflaged like coralline" on 11 August 2021.

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