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Find this pattern in the minouette Spoonflower and the original prints in the minouette Etsy shops.

#linocut #printmaking #sciart #pattern #seastar #ochreStarfish #linedChiton #chiton #mastoArt

Fabric:
https://www.spoonflower.com/en/fabric/19938064-ochre-seastar-lined-chiton-by-minouette

Chiton print:
https://minouette.etsy.com/listing/1686961917

Starfish print:
https://minouette.etsy.com/listing/1674691303

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Chiton

#Chiton #CCBYSA #MarineLife #Sealife #ArtWithOpenSource #Darktable #Chitons #Mollusc #Molluscs #Mollusca #Animals #Animal #AnimalPhotography #Nature #NaturePhotography #Photo #Photography

De Korè van Lyon

De korè van Lyon (Musée des Beaux-Arts, Lyon)

Kijk, dit is nou leuk. Tweemaal. Ik bedoel het bovenstaande beeld, dat ik vorige maand heb gefotografeerd in het Musée des Beaux-Arts in Lyon. Het stelt een vrouw voor en als u eens een boek over Griekse kunstgeschiedenis hebt gelezen, weet u dat kuntshistorici dit type standbeeld aanduiden als een korè, “meisje”. Archeologen moeten er honderden hebben gevonden, zoals ze ook honderden kouroi hebben gevonden, “jongens”. De meeste dateren uit de zesde eeuw v.Chr., en altijd zijn het staande figuren die je frontaal aankijken. Ze hebben altijd één voet iets naar voren; de jongens zijn naakt, de meisjes gekleed. Ze zijn vrij nauwkeurig te dateren aan de hand van de amandelogen, de glimlach en (bij de kouroi) de klutsknieën. Dit meisje is uit steen gehouwen tussen 540 en 520 v.Chr. Ze heeft als offerande een duif in de hand.

Het eerste wat leuk is aan dit beeld, is dat het is gemaakt van een marmersoort die werd (en wordt) gewonnen bij Athene, en dat de wijze waarop de kunstenaar het lichaam heeft afgebeeld, eveneens duidt op een Atheens atelier. Maar Atheense korai dragen meestal een lange wollen peplos, terwijl deze korè een linnen chiton draagt. Dat kledingstuk was populair in de Griekse steden in het westen van het huidige Turkije; anders gezegd, we hebben een oosterse invloed.

Reconstructie (klik=groot)

Opvallend is bovendien dat ze een schouder onbedekt heeft, zoals bij een mantel. Dat zou een noordelijke invloed kunnen zijn. In elk geval was de kans heel klein dat een Atheense er zo bij heeft gelopen. In de achttiende eeuw was het beeld in Marseille, maar we weten niet hoe het er is gekomen.

Leuk ding twee: in 1936 publiceerde Humphry Payne (broer van de bekende astronome) zijn boek Archaic Marble Sculpture from the Acropolis, waarin hij erop wees dat het onderlichaam en de linkerschouder van de korè van Lyon nog altijd in Athene waren. Het museum in Lyon bezit afgietsels van de Atheense delen van het beeld, maar de kwaliteit is abominabel, en daarom stelt men alleen het bovenlichaam tentoon.

[Dit was het 497e voorwerp in mijn reeks museumstukken.]

#Akropolis #Athene #chiton #duif #GriekseSculptuur #HumphryPayne #korè #peplos

Fitzgerald Marine Reserve #photo #seals #seastar #chiton #crab #anemone Photos from Fitzgerald Marine Reserve in San Mateo, California including seals, a hermit crab and a chiton.

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://ithoughthecamewithyou.com/post/fitzgerald-marine-reserve

At first I thought this was some sort of fossil - it felt like part of the rock. Turns out it's a chiton, a marine mollusc. This one is a giant chiton, Plaxiphora albida.

Chitons use biomineralisation to coat their teeth in iron (technically magnetite) so they can chew away on coral and algae growing on rocks.

#macro #nature #chiton #mollusc #auswildlife #molluscsofaustralia #marinelife

A giant chiton, Plaxiphora albida, on a rock.

Another 2024 print for #insertAnInvert: made for the #InsertAnInvert2024 prompt is crawler, about shellfish who can drag themselves over surface like the spectacularly coloured lined chitons (Tonicella lineata), beautiful, tiny marine mollusc of the North Pacific. I don’t usually make reduction prints but I think I might otherwise loose my mind trying to capture the complex patterns.

https://minouette.etsy.com/listing/1686961917

#linocut #printmaking #Tonicella #invertebrate #chiton #sciart #wildlifeArt #MastoArt

Final stage of my chiton print shows the ovoid animal from above with a series of plates surrounded by a girdle. The plates have pale pink and orangey brown downward pointing triangles down the middle with slanted thin stripes of burgundy, blue and black on either side. The girdle around the circumference has a reddish rim with yellow and blue dashes and a burgundy ring around the plates.

@alcootatooter also and just for good measure :awesome: #wildoz
"There are about 1000 species of #Chiton worldwide, Australia has about 150 species and 90% of these are native to #Australia. Most species are quite small (between 2 and 5 cm long). The largest rarely exceed 30 cm. All chitons are marine living, in cold water and in the tropics, mostly in #intertidal or #subtidal zones." http://www.mesa.edu.au/molluscs/molluscs_09.asp

@alcootatooter oh wow I had no idea about #chiton #chitons 😯 thanks for showing me!!

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Chitons are an unusual type of marine mollusc belonging to the class Polyplacophora. They differ from other molluscs by having an 8-plated shell, which is held together by a tough, skirt- like band of tissues known as the 'girdle’ (this may obscure the plates in some species). m https://www.museum.qld.gov.au > ... : Chitons - Animals of Queensland

#NewSpecies!
New chiton from #southchinasea just surfaced:

Cryptoplax acerocostata

Treatment: http://treatment.plazi.org/id/03DC87F1-FFF2-FFF5-FF1D-7F3F9EEF7DC6
Publication: http://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5492.1.3
#Zootaxa #CryptoplaxAcerocostata

#FAIRdata
#science #OA #openaccess #biology #taxonomy #ecology #biodiversity #nature #wildlife #conservation #animals #malacology #mollusc #chiton

A chiton’s teeth are made out of magnetite, the hardest material made by a living organism.

#science #sciencefacts #chiton #teeth #magnetite #adamantium

Chitons have more iron in their circulatory fluid (hemolymph) than any other animal studied to date.

#science #sciencefacts #chiton #chitons #iron #circulatoryfluid #hemolymph

2 more pics of #chiton at Rodeo beach
#marinelife #rockpools

2 chiton embedded in a rock pool crevice. 1 above the other.

I saw a living #chiton down at Rodeo beach this morning, usually just see the remains wash up. The tide was far enough out to see some rock pools and a few of these wonderful creatures.
#marinheadlands #marinelife

An iridescent chiton mollusk secured to the beach rocks

This week the #InsertAnInvert2024 prompt is crawler, about shellfish who can drag themselves over surface like the spectacularly coloured lined chitons (Tonicella lineata), beautiful, tiny marine mollusc of the North Pacific. I don’t usually make reduction prints but I think I might otherwise loose my mind trying to capture the complex patterns. Each 5 cm long animal has zigzag purple or black lines on 8 valves 🧵1/n

#linedChiton #linocut #printmaking #invertebrate #chiton #sciart #wildlifeArt

I don’t usually do reduction prints, but it seems the only sane way to get the registration right and reproduce the pattern. This print is going to need a lot of layers!

#linocut #printmaking #sciArt #chiton

A grid of drying linocut prints on a tabletop with cutting mats. There are at least 11 prints in the photo and they are on white printmaking paper 4” x 6”. They each have one registration tab attached and show the prints in the second and third stage of my chiton print with the cool pale pink ovoid shape with some white triangles and fine striped lines on the plates, overlaid with pale orangey yellow with carved areas showing pink triangles on the plates. Some of the prints also have a burgundy-brown layer with carved areas revealing orangey-yellow squarish spots on the girdle (the soft circumference area of the animal beyond the plates).

The next shelled creature prompt for #InsertAnInvert2024 is a crawler - an invertebrate which can drag itself across surfaces. I cannot resist the spectacular lined chiton (Tonicella lineata) which have amazing, varied, complex multicoloured patterned shells. 🧵1/2

#linocut #printmaking #wip #reliefPrint #reductionPrint #sciArt #linedChiton #chiton #MastoArt

A grid of drying linocut prints on a tabletop with cutting mats. There are at least 13 prints in the photo and they are on white printmaking paper 4” x 6”. They each have one registration tab attached and show the first stage of my chiton print with the cool pale pink ovoid shape with some white triangles and fine striped lines on the plates.

The next shelled creature prompt for #InsertAnInvert is a crawler - an invertebrate which can drag itself across surfaces. I cannot resist the spectacular lined chiton (Tonicella lineata) which have amazing, varied, complex multicoloured patterned shells. I don’t usually do reduction prints, but it seems the only sane way to get the registration right and reproduce the pattern. This print is going to need a lot of layers!

#linocut #printmaking #wip #reliefPrint #reductionPrint #sciArt #linedChiton #chiton

Unraveling the mystery of #chiton visual systems https://news.ucsb.edu/2024/021384/unraveling-mystery-chiton-visual-systems

A morphological basis for path-dependent #evolution of visual systems: Rebecca Varney et al. https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adg2689

"You’d probably walk past a chiton without seeing it. These creatures often look like nothing more than another speck of seaweed. But it sees you. At least, if it’s one of the species with eyes dotting its platemail shell... some of these tough #mollusks sport the most recently evolved eyes with a lens"

underwater photo of a chiton - a small flat mollusk with a segmented shell

Ive been doing a lot of social critique posts, so here is a picture of a chiton I found the other day.

Based on my tentative amateur identification, this is a Mossy Chiton, (Mopalia muscosa). This little mollusk was soaking in the sun in the intertidal zone, likely eager for the water to return.

Chitons, or Polyplacophorans, are severely underrated. As a group they date back fo the late Cambrian/early Ordovician, and share many similarities with the famous Halwaxiids.

#molluscodon #chiton

A salt-stained chiton on the sand and rocks of a northern California beach. This species lives in the intertidal zone, and the picture was taken during the time it was exposed to the air.

A Chiton (possibly Lepidochitona cinerea) and a Common Periwinkle (Littorina littorea), County Clare, Ireland.

Cormacscoast.com Walking tours

#Chiton #periwinkle #Ireland

Next up in my 2022 favourite photos round-up we have a common chiton (Lepidochitona cinerea). This mollusc come in a variety of patterns and colours and I thought this one was particularly special because of its pink girdle that matches the pink encrusting algae it’s sitting on. You can see the polymorphism (the physical variety) of these guys on my website. I made a database of them!

https://intertidal.uk/chitons

#marinebiology #chiton #wildlife #nature #intertidal #rockpools #rockpooling

#Chiton

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