Acanthopleura Guilding 1830

Description: English: Museum specimen of Acanthopleura granulata from Barbados. Date: 3 August 2015. Source: Own work. Author: Hectonichus.

Description: English: Acanthopleura granulata (Gmelin, 1791). Locally called Cucaracha. Date: 25 May 2013, 10:12:29. Source: Own work. Author: Wilfredor. Camera location10° 52′ 42.81″ N, 64° 00′ 06.8″ W View all coordinates using: OpenStreetMap 10.878557; -64.001888.

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Description: English: Acanthopleura granulata (Gmelin, 1791) 2236829083. Date: 12 February 2019, 10:46:00. Source: https://www.gbif.org/occurrence/2236829083. Author: iNaturalist.org (Zygy) (Zygy). Camera location18° 28′ 30.28″ N, 77° 55′ 37.59″ W View all coordinates using: OpenStreetMap 18.475077; -77.927107. : This media file is part of an observation on GBIF:gbif.org/occurrence/2236829083This tag does not indicate the copyright status of the attached work. A normal copyright tag is still required. See Commons:Licensing.

Description: English: Acanthopleura granulata (Gmelin, 1791). Locally called Cucaracha. Date: 25 May 2013, 10:52:05. Source: Own work. Author: Wilfredor. Camera location10° 52′ 40.78″ N, 64° 00′ 08.78″ W View all coordinates using: OpenStreetMap 10.877995; -64.002440.

Description: Español: La Ciénaga de Ocumare de la costa. Estado Aragua, Venezuela 2012 Polyplachophora: Acanthopleura granulata Gastropoda: Neritidae: Nerita fulgurans Nerita tesellata. Date: 1 March 2012. Source: Own work. Author: Veronidae.

Description: English: Acanthopleura granulata (Gmelin, 1791). Locally called Cucaracha. Date: 25 May 2013, 10:03:37. Source: Own work. Author: Wilfredor. Camera location10° 52′ 39.85″ N, 64° 00′ 09.58″ W View all coordinates using: OpenStreetMap 10.877737; -64.002662.

Camera location 16° 12′ 28.43″ N, 61° 30′ 28.74″ W : View all coordinates using: OpenStreetMap - Google Earth: 16.207897; -61.507983. Description: Acanthopleura granulata (Gmelin, 1791) English: A chiton on a rock at a medium high tidal level in Le Gosier, Guadeloupe, W.I. length about 5 cm. Français : Acanthopleura granulata, un chiton, sur une pierre, dans une flaque de marée du Gosier, en Guadeloupe. Longueur : 5 cm environ. Date: 7 June 2006. Source: Own work. Author: Hans Hillewaert cropped (by User:Snek01. Permission (Reusing this file): : This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license.:. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0 CC BY-SA 3.0 Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 truetrue.. Other versions: . Other licenses: More (4100+) and new images on : High resolution files on request.. Attribution (required by the license): © Hans Hillewaert / CC BY-SA 4.0. : © Hans Hillewaert /. : Valued image This image has been assessed under the valued image criteria and is considered the most valued image on Commons within the scope: Acanthopleura granulata (West Indian fuzzy chiton). You can see its nomination here.

Description: English: Two shell plates of the chiton Acanthopleura granulata: dorsal (from above) view of an intermediate plate (32 mm) and underside view of a tail plate (21 mm). Date: January 2009. Source: self-made by Invertzoo. Author: Invertzoo.

Description: English: Acanthopleura echinata, Playa Mansa, Chile. Scale bar = 2 cm. Date: 5 March 2015. Source: The shallow-water chitons (Mollusca, Polyplacophora) of Caldera, Region of Atacama, northern Chile. Zoosystematics and Evolution 91(1): 45-58 doi:10.3897/zse.91.8536. Author: Juan Francisco Araya, Marta Esther Araya.

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Ventral and Dorsal. Catalog no.: ACRSD 064. Specimen ID: 5785047. Field no.: ACRSD 064. Taxon rep.: Acanthopleura sp. Image quality: 1. Aspect ratio: 1.333.

Dorsal. Catalog no.: UPDIM-JA-2018-Mol-6.23-105-049. Specimen ID: 11952932. Field no.: Sorsogon Bay-2. Taxon rep.: Acanthopleura gemmata. Image quality: 1. Aspect ratio: 1.499.

Exmouth, Western Australia, Australia

Exmouth, Western Australia, Australia

Exmouth, Western Australia, Australia

With these specialized grazers, you've got to be extra stealthy... one false move and they disappear -in a matter of days. Fuzzy ChitonAcanthopleura granulataScout Key Monroe County Florida, USAOlympus OM-D E-M5 Mark IIOlympus 14-42mm II R LensPT-EP13 Underwater Housing, PPZR-EP02 Lens Port & 14-42mm Zoom Gear20 September 2019Phil's 1stPix Instagram

Judging from the relatively low mechanism of impact, I'm sure they'll just exchange insurance information and move on.Fuzzy ChitonAcanthopleura granulataScout Key Monroe County Florida, USAOlympus OM-D E-M5 Mark IIOlympus 14-42mm II R LensPT-EP13 Underwater Housing, PPZR-EP02 Lens Port & 14-42mm Zoom Gear20 September 2019Phil's 1stPix Instagram