Here’s a repeat pattern just in time for #invertefest: ochre starfish, kelp and lined chiton! Made with my #linocut #starfish and limited edition reduction lino block print of a lined chiton, Tonicella lineata, a beautiful, colourful tiny marine mollusc of the North Pacific. Each 5 cm (2”) long animal has zigzag purple or black lines on eight valves on a array of different colours like brown, red or burgundy like here but can also be bright blue or yellow to orange with a hairless girdle 🧵1/n
in colours like brown to red or pink, often with regular yellow or white patches. It is found from the Aleutian Islands of Alaska to San Miguel Island of California, as well as the Sea of Okhotsk of Russia and northern Japan in the intertidal to subtidal waters of 30 to 90 m (100 ft to 300 ft) depth. It’s thought their colourful bodies are intended to camouflage against algae. They are prey of the ochre starfish! 🧵2/3
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