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I don't think this is a blue green chiton because of the straight lines on it. Got any ideas @tony_wills from all your reading about chitons? :)
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I don't think this is a blue green chiton because of the straight lines on it. Got any ideas @tony_wills from all your reading about chitons? :)
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I don't think this is a blue green chiton because of the straight lines on it. Got any ideas @tony_wills from all your reading about chitons? :)
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In a rock pool in the mid intertidal 12mm long
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In a rock pool in the mid intertidal 10mm long
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In a rock pool in the mid intertidal. Maybe a blue green chiton? But this is smaller than all of the others I have seen. 12mm long
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A green chiton attached to a half crab. We observed this alien looking commensal beast while undertaking an intertidal survey on the reefs off Hawera. It made us jump when we first turned over the rock.
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A green chiton attached to a half crab. We observed this alien looking commensal beast while undertaking an intertidal survey on the reefs off Hawera. It made us jump when we first turned over the rock.
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A green chiton attached to a half crab. We observed this alien looking commensal beast while undertaking an intertidal survey on the reefs off Hawera. It made us jump when we first turned over the rock.
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Largest one I have seen, 33mm in length. Living in the shallow subtidal zone.
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Then I found this one 36mm long. Growing in the shallow subtidal zone.
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Then I found this one 36mm long. Growing in the shallow subtidal zone.
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Highlands Intermediate CoastBlitz Tapuae
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On underside of rocks.
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On underside of rocks. Quite damaged plates at the peak where they overlap.
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On underside of rocks.
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On underside of rocks. Quite damaged plates at the peak where they overlap.
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I suppose this is just a blue-green chiton, but I usually don't find such old eroded specimens.
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I suppose this is just a blue-green chiton, but I usually don't find such old eroded specimens.
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Under a rock in the shallow sub tidal zone.
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A blue green chiton