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Marine Species: Acanthopleura granulata
(Gmelin, 1791)
Taxonomy Structure
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Polyplacophora |
| Order: | Chitonida |
| Family: | Chitonidae |
| Genus: | Acanthopleura |
| Species: | Acanthopleura granulata |
Species Data:
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| Common Name: | Fuzzy Chiton |
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| Description: | Ends covered with narrow, short and rough spines. |
| Habitat: | Lives on rocky shores in solid bottoms (rocky) of the intertidal. |
| Color: | Ends with black stripes and the plates are brown when not eroded or encrusted. |
| Dimensions: | It has between 4 and 9 cm in length. |
| Geographical Distribution: | Western Central Atlantic |
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