Key to Irish Chitons
Species Description
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| Length: 10-15 mm long, 6-9 mm wide
Tegmentum colour: orange to pinkish, generally with small blotches of reddish-brown. Sculpture: smooth to the naked eye, small granules are apparent under high magnification; valves distinctly beaked. Girdle: Relatively narrow and covered by small scales, appearing sandy to the naked eye. Coloured like tegmentum, but sometimes with white or cream markings particularly in the sutures. Bathymetric range: intertidal to sublittoral Geographic range: an artic-boreal species, found in the North Atlantic and North Pacific. In the north-eastern Atlantic Ocean, found from Greenland and Scandinavia to Britain and Ireland; found also in the Western Atlantic down to Connecticut, and in the North Pacific from the Bering Sea to northern Japan. Similar species: Tonicella marmorea
Taxonomy and Synonymy: ORDER: Chitonida Thiele, 1909 FAMILY: Tonicellidae Simroth, 1894 GENUS: TONICELLA Carpenter, 1873 Boreochiton ruber (Linnaeus, 1767)
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