Valve (mollusc)
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A valve is each articulating part of the shell of a mollusc or another multi-shelled animal such as brachiopods and some crustaceans. Each part is known as a valve or in the case of chitons, a "plate"
Loose shell plates or valves of Chiton tuberculatus from the beach drift
Live individual of the lined chiton Tonicella lineata, head end towards the right
Paired valves of the bivalve Abra alba
Drawing of the interior of the left valve of the shell of "Julia borbonica"
Chiton tuberculatus
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Chiton tuberculatus, the West Indian green chiton, is a species of chiton, a marine polyplacophoran mollusk in the family Chitonidae, the typical chitons. It was first described in 1758 by Carl Linnae
Chiton tuberculatus. Museum specimen
Dorsal view