Image of hairy chiton
Description:
The chitons' eight plates differentiate them from all other molluscs. These omnivores spawn grey-green eggs, and fertilization occurs externally. Miniature adults form by sixteenth day.
Included On The Following Pages:
- Life (creatures)
- Cellular (cellular organisms)
- Eukaryota (eukaryotes)
- Opisthokonta (opisthokonts)
- Metazoa (Animal)
- Bilateria
- Protostomia (protostomes)
- Spiralia (spiralians)
- Mollusca (molluscs)
- Polyplacophora (chitons)
- Neoloricata
- Chitonida
- Acanthochitonina
- Mopalioidea
- Mopaliidae
- Mopaliinae
- Mopalia
- Mopalia ciliata (hairy chiton)
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- 2005 California Academy of Sciences
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- Lovell and Libby Langstroth
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