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Red Mail-shell

Boreochiton ruber

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28 photos

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Easily confused with

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in Alaska.January 84, February 62, March 97, April 153, May 220, June 240, July 257, August 221, September 162, October 121, November 66, December 52.
United States1,898
Alaska1,734
Canada322
Maine122
New Brunswick107
Quebec94
Nova Scotia40
Newfoundland and Labrador38
Nunavut28
Massachusetts27

Counts show where people looked, not only where it lives.

Classification

KingdomAnimals · Animalia
PhylumMolluscs · Mollusca
ClassChitons · Polyplacophora
OrderChitonida
FamilyTonicellidae
GenusBoreochiton

Sources

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