{"id":4076,"date":"2014-09-04T08:43:44","date_gmt":"2014-09-04T12:43:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/biology\/?p=4076"},"modified":"2014-09-04T10:52:24","modified_gmt":"2014-09-04T14:52:24","slug":"marine-organism-of-the-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/biology\/2014\/09\/04\/marine-organism-of-the-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Marine Organism of the Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Veiled chiton <em>Placiphorella velata (Phylum Mollusca)<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<table style=\"height: 27px\" width=\"623\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p><div id=\"attachment_4077\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/biology\/files\/2014\/09\/chiton-carnivorous.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4077\" class=\"wp-image-4077 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/biology\/files\/2014\/09\/chiton-carnivorous-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"the veiled chiton Placiphorella velata \" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/biology\/files\/2014\/09\/chiton-carnivorous-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/biology\/files\/2014\/09\/chiton-carnivorous-134x100.jpg 134w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/biology\/files\/2014\/09\/chiton-carnivorous.jpg 576w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4077\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The veiled chiton Placiphorella velata in feeding posture.<\/p><\/div><\/td>\n<td>\n<p><div id=\"attachment_4078\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/biology\/files\/2014\/09\/chiton-carnivorous-2-small.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4078\" class=\"wp-image-4078 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/biology\/files\/2014\/09\/chiton-carnivorous-2-small-300x225.jpg\" alt=\" the veiled chiton Placiphorella velata \" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/biology\/files\/2014\/09\/chiton-carnivorous-2-small-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/biology\/files\/2014\/09\/chiton-carnivorous-2-small-134x100.jpg 134w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/biology\/files\/2014\/09\/chiton-carnivorous-2-small.jpg 576w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4078\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The veiled chiton Placiphorella velata<\/p><\/div><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>Chitons are marine <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ucmp.berkeley.edu\/taxa\/inverts\/mollusca\/mollusca.php\" target=\"_blank\">mollusks<\/a>, related to snails, and they have 8 plates on their back. Almost all of them feed by scraping algae off of rocks with a toothed structure called a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mLVDwlrSq5U\" target=\"_blank\">radula<\/a>. However, the veiled chiton, <em>Placiphorella velata,<\/em> raises a flap on the front of its body and waits for small crabs or shrimp to wander underneath\u2026then drops the flap on the unlucky prey, scrapes it into pieces and eats it. It lives on the west coast of the US and is one of the only predatory chitons.<\/p>\n<p>Submitted by Josh Lord.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Veiled chiton Placiphorella velata (Phylum Mollusca) Chitons are marine mollusks, related to&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":4077,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_batesModPostContentOverride_prepend":false,"_batesModPostContentOverride_append":false,"_batesModPostContentOverride_append_before_footer":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4076"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4076\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4091,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4076\/revisions\/4091"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}