Rocky Shore Beach
This is a presentation about the cats eye,
chitons and little black mussels.
Cat Eyes Facts
Scientific name: Is Lunella Smaragdus
Size: is up to 25mm
Where dose it live? A cats eye lives in low
tide.
What does it look like? A cats eye lives in
a hard shell like a crab
The information about Cats Eye.
 Groups of dark top shells live both on and
under rock boulders at high tide and in rock
pools. Cats eyes are little snails inside a
crab shell The challenges for a cats eye are
that people take them from their habitat and
eat them.
Chitons Facts
The scientific name: Syphorochitons
Pelliserpentis
Size: Are up to 40mm
Where does it live?: The chitons are found
in intertidal zone of the rocky shore
What does it look like: It has a rim that
looks like it has bricks around it.
The information about
chitons
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The chitons valves are strongly
sculptured and a dull olive-green
colour marked with black at the sides
and on the top. The chitons like the
rocks that are flat so if you look for
them look on the flat rocks.
The challenges for the chitons are
that people are taking them from their
habitat.
Little Black Mussel Facts
 Scientific
name: Mytilus Edulis
 Size: 20mm
 Where does it live: The black mussel lives
in high tide and intertidal zone
 The challenges for the mussel are: People
taking them from their habitat and eating
them.
The information about the mussel
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A little shiny black mussel that lives in
sand beds on the upper rocky shore
platform. Teardrop shaped they crowd
together attached to the rocks and often
each other by strong threads called a
byssus.