chitons

Chitons first appeared on Earth more than 500 million years ago.

Chitons can live for one to twenty years, or more.

On the other hand, wrinkles are seen in the feet of dead chitons.

Many chitons can be identified in the field, without being disturbed or harmed.

The thin chitons reveal the body underneath as the focus of the composition.

Chitons can be less than an inch long, or up to a foot long.

These chitons can be found subtidally under rocks and stones.

Lots of questions on flora and fauna that we saw, especially the chitons.

It includes all the living and extinct genera of chitons.

Since his description of the first four species, chitons have been variously classified.

Chitons also have structures known as aesthetes, which are not found in any other type of animal.

These chitons can be found in intertidal zones to 40m depths.

Chitons are adapted to living on hard rock surfaces.

If you are trying to identify chitons without collecting them, it may be useful to bring along a hand lens.

These chitons may be gray, green and brown, commonly with pink in the middle of the valves.

Although in many ways chitons seem to be quite primitive, they are well-adpated to their lifestyle.

Solenogastres may or may not be the sister group of chitons.

The objects were held just above the chitons.

Most chitons are nocturnal, so they feed at night, and hide under rocks during the day.

The textbooks will tell you that chitons are herbivorous, but this is not necessarily the case.

"We can also show that they evolved a number of characteristics seen in some modern chitons convergently."

Many chitons live in the intertidal zone, and are usually most active at night or when the tide is high.

Most of his work dealt with chitons, cephalopods, and also land snails.

Chitons have a relatively good fossil record, stretching back 400 million years to the Devonian.

Chitons have fairly simple nervous systems, but they do possess some sensory organs.