Cinereous Chiton

Lepidochitona cinerea

• Group: Other

An oval chiton armoured with eight overlapping plates, it clamps onto rock in intertidal flats and pools, even pushing into brackish lagoons. It rasps a film of microscopic algae from the stone with its toothed tongue.

Taxonomy: Animalia › Mollusca › Polyplacophora › Chitonida › Tonicellidae › Lepidochitona

Species data via the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS), AphiaID 152774.