chiton

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"I don't think there's any other animal that builds its eyes into its armor like a chiton does," said co-author Daniel Speiser of the University of South Carolina.

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

On the throne now sat Notus—a bronze-skinned old man in a fiery Greek chiton, his head crowned with a wreath of withered, smoking barley.

From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan