Key to Irish Chitons
Species Description
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| Length: to 34 mm
Tegmentum colour: variable, typically from creamy white to olive green and brown, with white and yellow blotches; the jugal area may be lighter (cream or beige) or with dark bluish longitudinal streaks. Sculpture: valves usually beaked. The jugal area with close, longitudinal riblets; latero-pleural areas covered with typically widely spaced granules of variable shape, from oval to more or less elongate drop-shaped. Girdle: broad and usually covered with two kinds of spicules: evenly distributed short spicules, and longer thick spicules, curved, interspersed amongst them, with 18 large tufts of spines arranged around the head and at the sutures. Geographic range: Found in the north Atlantic from Scotland, England, north coasts of France and Spain, west coast of Portugal, and most likely in the Mediterranean Sea. Similar species: Acanthochitona discrepans, Acanthochitona fascicularis
Taxonomy & Synonymy: ORDER: Chitonida Thiele, 1909 FAMILY: Acanthochitonidae Pilsbry, 1893 GENUS: ACANTHOCHITONA Gray, 1821 Acanthochitona crinita (Pennant, 1777)
List of synonymised names available at:
For more information on this species, see: https://marinvert.senckenberg.science/acanthochitona-crinita/ |
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