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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