Undersides of the stones at the shoal are occupied by clung mollusca of the class Polyplacophora (or Loricata) called Chitons.
Their backs have a protective coverings of eight mobile plates or scales layered upon each other, and their pallia are adorned by fragile calcareous spikes or lumps and fit the stone fast.
Four chiton of four different species were found at this stone decorated by Pomatoceros tubes and multiple Spirorbis squiggle together with Botrylloides leachii tunicate colony around the lower left chiton.
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