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Lined Chiton

 
Gumboot Chiton

 
Chitons have an eight-piece shell. The hard pieces are called valves. The leathery flesh is called the girdle and the girdle holds the valves together. There are about eight hundred kinds of chitons in the world. They cling to rocks. Their foot is a wide muscular organ that helps them hold on to rocks. They are very sluggish. They eat algae. They eat with their radula. Radula is a ribbon of hard teeth. The chitons grow 1/3 to 12 inches.

 Diet algae, seaweed debris and dead animals, small worms and crustaceans
 Size 2 centimeters to 33 centimeters
 Color black, greenish, green and gray with brown lines, red, white, blue, brown with white spines and brick-red, pink to lavender
 Life Cycle eggs
 Predators crabs, fish, anemones,  
 Neat Facts may live up to 25 years
 Types black, mossy, woody, lined, rough, gumboot, carnivorous, troglodyte
 Relatives abalone, nudibranchs, sea hares, octopi, squid, scallops, mussels, oysters, clams, snails, limpets

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