chiton
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To get started, the team began constructing a chiton family tree using DNA from specimens preserved in co-author Doug Eernisse's global chiton collection, which now resides at the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 4, 2024
I found a cantaloupe-color, fist-size chiton that a gull had snacked on.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 29, 2018
A professor held the tongue plate of a chiton, a type of mollusk, and dragged it around with a bar magnet.
From Science Magazine ● Jun. 23, 2016
The photo shows a chiton, which has an oval body with plate-like armor divided into segments.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2015
He wore an ancient Greek chiton and a white himation, a kind of cape that flowed down his shoulders.
From "The Battle of the Labyrinth" by Rick Riordan
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