Tonicella lineata; Lined Chiton; <small>(shown with <a href=/cgi/img_query?where-taxon=Coralline+algae&title_tag=Coralline+algae>Coralline algae</a>)</small>

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Tonicella lineata; Lined Chiton; (shown with Coralline algae)

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Tonicella lineata
Lined Chiton
(shown with Coralline algae)

Photographer: Lovell and Libby Langstroth
Organization: California Academy of Sciences
Collection: CalAcademy

ID: 0000 0000 0305 0126 (2005-03-05)

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date of photo Jun 1980

latitude 36.54630 longitude -121.93121 max error distance 2866 meters View on Google Maps.

horizontal datum World Geodetic System 1984

georeferencing source GeoLocate

location Carmel Bay (Monterey County, California, US)

family Ischnochitonidae

order Neoloricata

class Polyplacophora

habitat low intertidal & subtidal

notes Herbivore found on crustose and erect coralline algae, its major food and the source of its pigment. 15 mm long, 10 m deep. Its scraping organ, the radula, contains magnetite, hard enough to scrape the corallines. The chitons are broadcast spawners with external fertilization.

camera Nikon in Oceanic housing

photo category: Animal - Invertebrate-Other

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common names Lined Chiton (photographer)

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