Small 15 to 26mm long, 13 to 18mm wide. Plates pale green. Front plate with 10 radial ridges, rear plate a single ridge. Other plates just 2 radial ridges. Plates patterned with front to back darker green parallel lines. Skirt/girdle yellowy-brown with tufts of bristles.
Found under hold-fasts of giant kelp. Cook Strait, South Island, Stewart Island.
Acanthochaetes ovatus (Hutton, 1872)
Streptochiton tortuosus (Pilsbry, 1893)
Frembleya egregia (H. Adams, 1867)
New Zealand Mollusca, Marine Land and Freshwater Shells, A W B Powell, 1979
Depth | intertidal |
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Places | Cook Strait, South Island, Stewart Island |