Animalia > Mollusca > Polyplacophora > Chitonida > Acanthochitonidae > Cryptochiton > Cryptochiton stelleri

Cryptochiton stelleri (Giant Pacific Chiton)

Synonyms: Chiton californicus; Chiton chlamys; Chiton sitkensis; Chiton stelleri; Cryptochiton stelleri var. apicalis

Wikipedia Abstract

The gumboot chiton (Cryptochiton stelleri) also known as the giant western firey chiton, is the largest of the chitons, growing to 36 cm (14 in) and over 2 kg (4.4 lb). It is found along the shores of the northern Pacific Ocean from Central California to Alaska, across the Aleutian Islands to the Kamchatka Peninsula and south to Japan. It inhabits the lower intertidal and subtidal zones of rocky coastlines.
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Attributes

Water Biome [1]  Coastal

Prey / Diet

Fusitriton oregonensis (Oregon triton)[2]

Predators

External References

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Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Myers, P., R. Espinosa, C. S. Parr, T. Jones, G. S. Hammond, and T. A. Dewey. 2006. The Animal Diversity Web (online). Accessed February 01, 2010 at animaldiversity.org
♦ 2Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
♦ 3Wootton, J. Timothy. "Estimates and tests of per capita interaction strength: diet, abundance, and impact of intertidally foraging birds." Ecological Monographs 67.1 (1997): 45+. Academic OneFile. Web. 23 July 2010
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0