#chitons

Meso 🌨️❄️

@mesokari.bsky.social

2 months ago

eight colorful chitons with different variations of stripes on their valves. (I drew this so long ago I can't remember what I ref'd, so if I got the stripes wrong and accidentally ended up drawing a totally different species i'm sorry) ink and watercolor

Tonicella lineata - lined chiton (2023)

Imagine a really flat slug wearing plate armor; that's basically what these guys look like. All the other mollusks downsized on their shell pieces but the chitons said "nah I think 8 pieces are still in fashion"

#invertebrates #mollusks #chitons #art #sciart

Elle Farrell-Kingsley

@ellefkingsley.bsky.social

3 months ago

My most meaningful moment of 2025
~ handmaking a #Medusa costume
~ researching classical #chitons, crafting careful details & recreating childhood #myth

In awe that #Darkly #Art #Magazine, a French #avant-garde #couture mag, featured the photos & even chose one for the cover

1/3

Dr. Brendan Anderson

@fossilsndcoffee.bsky.social

4 months ago

I love that @paleosoc.bsky.social doesn't tag @sethf.bsky.social when he is the only clade where we can tag all of them directly.

Anyway, go mollusks 🦑🐌🦪🐙! #invertebrates #snails #bivalves #cephalopods #chitons #aplacophora #monoplacophora #scaphopoda

Ranjeev Epa PhD

@ranjeevlikesclams.bsky.social

1 year ago

Happy #molluscmonday
Here are some beautiful #chitons from Puttalum, Sri Lanka
#molluscsofsrilanka

Siobhan Schenk

@siobhanschenk.bsky.social

1 year ago

Bubble gum pink spot of Coralline algae with dark red Polyneura blades. The nudibranchs are mostly white with yellow specs and the chitons are grey/pink. The same color as the rock

Tiny Polyneura latissima baldes and crustose coralline algae for #PhycologyFriday from a night time fieldwork expedition.
There are also 2 #nudibranchs doing nothing of note and multiple #chitons if you look closely!

🦑🧪

vavavroom

@vavavroon.bsky.social

1 year ago

Again at #PillarPoint at low tide to look for more #chitons. You can see the #foot in the center which looks just like the foot of a snail or slug and you can see the #gills run on both sides between the foot and the fleshy #girdle. I have no idea what the white object is - maybe another creature.

Science Actually

@scienceactually.bsky.social

1 year ago

Chitons have more iron in their circulatory fluid (hemolymph) than any other animal studied to date. #science #sciencefacts #chiton #chitons #iron #circulatoryfluid #hemolymph

Chitons have more iron in their circulatory fluid (hemolymph) than any other animal studied to date.

#science #sciencefacts #chiton #chitons #iron #circulatoryfluid #hemolymph