WHAT IS IT?
Dee is getting out and about a whole lot more lately. This week she encourages us to do the same and has a photo for you to guess at what it is.
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WHAT IS IT?
Dee is getting out and about a whole lot more lately. This week she encourages us to do the same and has a photo for you to guess at what it is.
Geoduck (Panopea abrupta) ??????????:)
Is it a chiton?
I'll agree with vargoje3. Called Gumboots in Alaska.
I've eaten them roasted on the beach, just experimenting...
darn...there's always someone who can reply before me, but yes I do believe it is a Chiton.
Chiton it is.
http://faculty.clintoncc.suny.edu/fa...al_surface.jpg
Gary
Your are correct it is a chiton but not a Gumboot [Crytochiton stelleri]. Which chiton is it?
The Chronicler
Eeeewwwwww! Someone would EAT that???
Looks like a snake wrapped around a pillow.
Mopalia lignosa - The Woody Chiton?
Your close but no cigar.
The Chronicler
How about a Mossy Chiton?
Kelly.
A chiton? the question is still the same for me, what is it?
lol
Mike :D
Mopalia muscosa ( Mossy Chiton ).
That photo in LFs article: http://www.flyanglersonline.com/arti...p_image002.jpg is of one that's been dead a while or very old and rolled smooth in the sand, so it's hard to tell...but this is what they look like when they are
alive.
http://www.bily.com/pnwsc/web-conten...LS%20photo.jpg
the best give away is the shape of the segment... <<< or {{{ instead of the more common ||| or (((
We'll get a new photo up for you, the inside shell of this creature is mother of pearl as most things of this type, but the color is sky blue! How amazing is that?
Mossy Chiton [Mopalia muscosa] is the correct answer.
For general information, the Chiton is anyone of several species of primitive sea animals having a body made up of eight separate plates, a girdle that may be scaly or bristly, and a large, flat muscular foot which allows the animal to adhere tightly to rocks.
The Mossy Chiton has a stiff, thick bristly girdle and is likely to have plants and animals growing on its plates. The Hariy Chiton [Mopalia lignosa] has rather soft hairs, is dull green or brown, and occasionall has yellow tinges on the plates.
The Chronicler
Here's the inside:
When diving off monterey a few years ago, we found lots of the shell/skeletons of the big gumboots. Usually could find them all together in some hollow in the rocks. Really look cook put back together on a coffee table. unfortunately, I can't find the one I had.
I hear they taste a lot like abalone. The foot on the bottom of the Gumboot looks like the foot on an ab. I haven't tried them, just tried limpets, sushi stye...good!! Chewy, but Good!!
mao