New Zealand Seashore

DSC_5044 Zigzag chiton (Plaxiphora caelata) two feeding in corallina weed. These are small, narrow and cryptic chitons, with a wide girdle that is narrower on the ends. Hides around the holdfast of foliose algae on open rock surfaces on wave-exposed shores. Brighton Beach *

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DSC_5044 Zigzag chiton (Plaxiphora caelata) two feeding in corallina weed. These are small, narrow and cryptic chitons, with a wide girdle that is narrower on the ends. Hides around the holdfast of foliose algae on open rock surfaces on wave-exposed shores. Brighton Beach *

DSC 5044 Zigzag chiton Plaxiphora caelata narrow cryptic Brighton Beach