THE 
SCALY CHITON. 
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GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Animal refembling a Doris. 
Shell confifting of feveral fegments difpofed lon- 
gitudinally in the back. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
CHITON with the fhell commonly confifting of 
eight valves; the margin fcaly. 
The genus Chiton is generally found adhering to 
rocks, like fome of the Lepades. The fpecies, 
which are pretty numerous, are lefs remarkable for 
beauty than for fingularity of ftructure; being com- 
pofed of feveral diftinct fhelly bounds. The fpecies 
here reprefented is one of the largeft, and is a native 
of the American coafts. Its general color is a blue- 
ifh green, variegated with veins and fpecks of 
darker and lighter colors. It is curious to contem- 
plate the fimilarity in point of general form, which 
fometimes takes place between animals of the moft 
diftant tribes, and which have no real affinity to each 
other. Thus in the prefent genus, the inhabiting 
animals are covered with an armour refembling that 
of 
