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This is a presentation about the cats eye,

chitons and little black mussels.

Cat Eyes Facts Cat Eyes Facts

Scientific name:Scientific name: Is Lunella Smaragdus Is Lunella Smaragdus

Size:Size: is up to 25mm is up to 25mm

Where dose it live?Where dose it live? A cats eye lives in low A cats eye lives in low tide.tide.

What does it look like?What does it look like? A cats eye lives in A cats eye lives in a hard shell like a crab a hard shell like a crab

The information about Cats Eye.The information about Cats Eye.

Groups of dark top shells live both on and Groups of dark top shells live both on and under rock boulders at high tide and in rock under rock boulders at high tide and in rock pools. Cats eyes are little snails inside a pools. Cats eyes are little snails inside a crab shell The challenges for a cats eye are crab shell The challenges for a cats eye are that people take them from their habitat and that people take them from their habitat and eat them. eat them.

Chitons Facts Chitons Facts

The scientific name:The scientific name: Syphorochitons Syphorochitons Pelliserpentis Pelliserpentis

Size:Size: Are Are up to 40mmup to 40mm

Where does it live?:Where does it live?: The chitons The chitons are found are found in intertidal zone of the rocky shorein intertidal zone of the rocky shore

What does it look like:What does it look like: It has a rim that It has a rim that looks like it has bricks around it.looks like it has bricks around it.

The information about The information about chitonschitons The chitons valves are strongly The chitons valves are strongly

sculptured and a dull olive-green sculptured and a dull olive-green colour marked with black at the sides colour marked with black at the sides and on the top. The chitons like the and on the top. The chitons like the rocks that are flat so if you look for rocks that are flat so if you look for them look on the flat rocks.them look on the flat rocks.

The challenges for the chitons are The challenges for the chitons are that people are taking them from that people are taking them from their habitat.their habitat.

Little Black Mussel Facts Little Black Mussel Facts

Scientific nameScientific name:: Mytilus Edulis Mytilus Edulis Size:Size: 20mm 20mm Where does it liveWhere does it live: The black mussel lives : The black mussel lives

in high tide and intertidal zone in high tide and intertidal zone The challenges for the mussel are:The challenges for the mussel are: People People

taking them from their habitat and eating taking them from their habitat and eating them. them.

The information about the musselThe information about the mussel

A little shiny black mussel that lives in A little shiny black mussel that lives in sand beds on the upper rocky shore sand beds on the upper rocky shore platform. Teardrop shaped they crowd platform. Teardrop shaped they crowd together attached to the rocks and often together attached to the rocks and often each other by strong threads called a each other by strong threads called a byssus. byssus.