Acanthochitona garnoti de Blainville, 1825


This chiton is elongated, rather depressed and not carinated. The color is brownish with two slightly diverging whitish stripes bound the dorsal area. The median valves are rather beaked. The central areas are closely and evenly covered with elongate granules. The dorsal areas (triangular) are closely striated longitudinally. The girdle is dirty green, closely covered with clear or dark green bristles, having eighteen branches of numberous, radiating bristles.


Illustrated specimen is from the Burghardt Collection and was collected by Alan Seccombe in False Bay, South Africa