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Plancia ëd Tectura depicta (Hinds 1842)

Plancia ëd Tectura depicta (Hinds 1842)

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Note the graze marks left by this little herbivorous limpet that lives only on eel grass, Zostera marina. In recent years this invasive species has wiped out most of the Zostera beds in Monterey Bay by grazing the leafs' epidermis with its chloroplasts and chlorophyll .

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2005 California Academy of Sciences
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