Species Profile
Chiton
Coat-of-mail shell
KingdomAnimalia
PhylumMollusca
ClassPolyplacophora
OrderUnknown
FamilyUnknown
Introduction
Chiton lives on rocky sea shores.
It feeds on algae scraped from surfaces.
It is common in intertidal zones.
Size & Structure
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Flattened oval body
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Dark brown shell plates
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Eight dorsal plates
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Strong muscular foot
Chiton — 3D Model
General Features
- Coelom
- Eucoelomate (reduced)
- Body plan
- Tube within a tube body plan (Protostomous)
- Germ layer
- Triploblastic
- Metamerism
- Absent
- Body symmetry
- Bilateral symmetry
- Fertilization
- External
- Digestion type
- Complete, extracellular
- Nervous system
- Ladder-like nervous system
- Excretory organ
- Metanephridia
- Body temperature
- Poikilothermic, stenohaline
- Circulatory type
- Open circulation, single
- Development type
- Indirect
- Respiratory type
- Ctenidial respiration
- Mode of excretion
- Ammonotelism
- Circulation system
- Open
- Skeleton structure
- Exoskeleton (eight calcareous shell plates)
- Level of Organisation
- Organ-system level
- Regulation of Osmosis
- Osmoconformer
Ecology
Controls algal growth
Part of rocky shore ecosystem
Food source for predators
Economic Importance
Zoology practical specimen
Evolutionary studies
Ecological importance