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Each lens can form clear images, and is composed of relatively large, highly crystallographically aligned grains to minimize light scattering. [22] An individual chiton may have thousands of such ocelli. [18] These aragonite-based eyes [23] make them capable of true vision, [24] though research continues as to the extent of their visual acuity ...
The Ionic chiton could also be made from linen or wool and was draped without the fold and held in place from neck to wrist by several small pins or buttons.. Herodotus states the dress of the women in Athens was changed from the Doric peplos to the Ionic chiton after the widows of the men killed on military expedition to Aegina stabbed and killed the sole survivor with their peplos pins, each ...
Like other chitons, it is a slow moving grazer that consumes several species of brown and red algae including kelps, sea lettuce, and encrusting diatoms. They're also known to eat sponges, tiny barnacles, spirobid polychaetes, and bryozoans. Their predators include sea urchins, leather stars, black oystercatchers, glaucous-winged gulls, and humans.
Pilgrims view one of the claimed Seamless Robes (Trier, April 2012) The collarless neck of the seamless robe of Jesus The Seamless Robe of Jesus (also known as the Holy Robe, Holy Tunic, Holy Coat, Honorable Robe, and Chiton of the Lord) is the robe said to have been worn by Jesus during or shortly before his crucifixion.
The gumboot chiton (Cryptochiton stelleri), also known as the giant western fiery chiton or giant Pacific chiton, is the largest of the chitons, growing to 36 cm (14 in) and capable of reaching a weight of more than 2 kg (4.4 lb).
Eudoxochiton nobilis, commonly called the noble chiton, is a large chiton of the family Callochitonidae. The Māori name is Rangitīra. [1] Description and habitat
Acanthochitona armata is a chiton of the surf zone endemic to Hawaiʻi. [1] [2] Acanthochitona armata grows to about one inch in length [3] and is colored green, gray, and/or brown. They can be found along the surf zone [3] attached to the rocks. Acanthochitona armata is oval-shaped with a bilaterally symmetric body. [4]
Chiton magnificus, the liquorice sea cradle, is a Southeast Pacific species of edible chiton, a marine polyplacophoran mollusk in the family Chitonidae, ...