ID Help I'm guessing Cryptoplax larvaeformis??
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Boomer
Reef Sanctuary's Mr. Wizard
Are you lost 
Don't remember seeing you here before
First, I need some info. You are taking about the long finger like "thing" in the center of the pic. It curves to the right and goes behind the rock. If that is it that is no Chiton at all. Chitons can not bend around corners. How does this thing move or does it move. Is there a shell, for sure ?
That pic is bad Why can't you pick it up and put in a dish for a better pic ? Funny on my search I ran into you on another forum but no pics, they have been removed. Some else on another forum has something similar and is using the same ID as you. He has no nics As your pic sits, as is, it looks like Jacknife, only they are usually not that curved and they are a long curved bivalve and do get 6 " long and are about as wide as your finger and can move around. However, jacknifes, razor usually sit in the sediment
Something else I found;
The most common species of coralline in the region, Hydrolithon onkodes, often forms an intimate relationship with the chiton Cryptoplax larvaeformis. The chiton lives in burrows that it makes in H. onkodes plants, and comes out at night to graze on the surface of the coralline. This combination of grazing and burrowing results in a peculiar growth form (called castles) in H. onkodes in which the coralline produces nearly vertical, irregularly curved lamellae.
Don't remember seeing you here before First, I need some info. You are taking about the long finger like "thing" in the center of the pic. It curves to the right and goes behind the rock. If that is it that is no Chiton at all. Chitons can not bend around corners.
How does this thing move or does it move. Is there a shell, for sure ?That pic is bad
Why can't you pick it up and put in a dish for a better pic ? Funny on my search I ran into you on another forum but no pics, they have been removed. Some else on another forum has something similar and is using the same ID as you. He has no nics As your pic sits, as is, it looks like Jacknife, only they are usually not that curved and they are a long curved bivalve and do get 6 " long and are about as wide as your finger and can move around. However, jacknifes, razor usually sit in the sedimentSomething else I found;
The most common species of coralline in the region, Hydrolithon onkodes, often forms an intimate relationship with the chiton Cryptoplax larvaeformis. The chiton lives in burrows that it makes in H. onkodes plants, and comes out at night to graze on the surface of the coralline. This combination of grazing and burrowing results in a peculiar growth form (called castles) in H. onkodes in which the coralline produces nearly vertical, irregularly curved lamellae.
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Boomer
Reef Sanctuary's Mr. Wizard
Thanks doni for an idea
OS
This combination of grazing and burrowing results in a peculiar growth form (called castles) in H. onkodes in which the coralline produces nearly vertical, irregularly curved lamellae
Is this possible or is the whole 6 " the actual animal, meaning that is not a "cave " like structure for say 4 ". Maybe yours is not vert but horz.
OS
This combination of grazing and burrowing results in a peculiar growth form (called castles) in H. onkodes in which the coralline produces nearly vertical, irregularly curved lamellae
Is this possible or is the whole 6 " the actual animal, meaning that is not a "cave " like structure for say 4 ". Maybe yours is not vert but horz.
Hi there, I just finished a invertebrates course at university, and thats for sure a chiton genus cryptoplax, do you know where Its from? I did an experiment on a species found on the great barrier reef and it really looks like this guy! but there are few different species that look really similar
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Hi samantha - if you don't get a reply, it's because you are replying to a post made on 06-19-2005
oldsaint
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This one hitchhike in on about 250lbs of live rock from Tonga. It was the old nice Tonga kaelini to be more specific.
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