Acanthochitona
garnoti de Blainville,. 1825
This chiton is elongated, rather depressed and not carinated. The color is
brownish with two slightly diverging whitish stripes bound the dorsal
area. The median valves are rather beaked. The central areas are closely
and evenly covered with elongate granules. The dorsal areas (triangular)
are closely striated longitudinally. The girdle is dirty green, closely
covered with clear or dark green bristles, having eighteen branches of
numberous, radiating bristles.
Illustrated specimen is from the Burghardt Collection and was collected by
Alan Seccombe in False Bay, South Africa
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