Giant Pacific ("Gumboot") Chiton Hyperlinks and URLs to other reliable sources of information about Chitons

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Monterey Bay Aquarium (Living Species List)
http://www.mbayaq.org/efc/living_species/default.asp?hOri=1&inhab=481

Gumboot Chiton (Names, Life, Human interaction, References, Notes)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gumboot_chiton 

Gumboot Chiton (adult form of larva)
http://ebiomedia.com/gall/larvae/larva4A.html

Gumboot Chiton (chiton plates)
oceanlink.island.net/oinfo/biodiversity/ gumboot/gumboot.html 

GumbootChiton (Taxonomy)
www.racerocks.com/racerock/eco/taxalab/ensy02/sarahm.htm

Gumboot Chiton (Photo #2608)
http://library.thinkquest.org/J002608/chiton.html?tqskip1=1

Gumboot Chiton (Photograph)
www.lausd.k12.ca.us/NH_Zoo_Magnet/virtual/gumboot.html 

Gumboot Chitons at Race Rocks (Quicktime video)
www.racerocks.com/racerock/archives/vidgumchiton.htm
http://www.racerocks.com/racerock/eco/taxalab/ensy02/sarahm.htm

Gumboot Chiton (Underside photos)
www.lanecc.edu/science/zonation/gumbootc.htm 

BG - Adult Barnacle --> BOOT & HISTORY OF NAME
ebiomedia.com/gall/larvae/larva4A.html 
The Gumboot Chiton (Cryptochiton stelleri). The Pacific Coast of North America is
home to the world's largest chiton, a class of animals in the Phylum Mollusca. ...

The top picture shows a typical individual of this species next to the size 12 gumboot of the author. The genus name for this animal, Cryptochiton, means 'cryptic' or 'hidden' referring both to ithe fact that it looks rather like a clump of rock in its natural environment, and the eight bony plates normally seen on the back surface of chitons are hidden from view by the thick red mantle. The species hame, stelleri, is in honor of the great German explorer scientist, Georg Steller, one of the first great naturalists to study life on the North American West Coast around 1750.

Chitons are often found washed up on sandy beaches in various stages of decay. The middle photo shows one such rotting chiton revealing 5 of the 8 bony plates exposed by the removal of the foot and internal organs. Many members of phylum Mollusca have protective shells, but only members of this Class of chitons, (Class Polyplacophora - meaning 'many shelled') have the 8 bony plates.

Chitons  (Several Chiton photos)
hmsc.oregonstate.edu/projects/rocky/chiton.html 

Polyplacophora  (Variety of photographs)
virtual.yosemite.cc.ca.us/randerson/ Marine%20Invertebrates/polyplac.htm 

Introduction  (Lists of photos)
www.ncrcn.org/projects/me/tidepool/menu.html 

Big Creek Fieldtrip Image
(Underside photo of chiton underside)
biology.fullerton.edu/biol317/im/s03/ft2/ft10-84.html - 2k

Humboldt State: Tidepool Molluscs  (Photograph)
www.humboldt.edu/~natmus/NorthcoastNature/ Tidepools/molluscs.html

Star Thrower Educational Multimedia  (Unnamed photo of four chitons)
www.starthrower.org/products/DDDB/DDDB_050-099/ DDDB_077%20chitons.htm

SPARS Animals  (Photograph)
www-sci.pac.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/protocol/ spars/Animals/animals.htm 

The Sea Slug Forum - Chitons - Polyplacophora, Amphineura  (Questions/discussion of chitons)
www.seaslugforum.net/chitons.htm 

Butterfly Pavilion : Invertebrates    (Link to Butterflies)
www.butterflies.org/invert.cfm?section=water 

CalPhotos: Browse Invertebrates by Common Names   (Copyrighted list of photos)
elib.cs.berkeley.edu/photos/ fauna/com-Invertebrate.html

Phylum Mollusca
www.usfca.edu/fac-staff/chienp/phylum%20mollusca.html

BC Biodiversity - Oceanic Diversity: Mollusks
www.bcbiodiversity.homestead.com/mollusks.htm