Top shells traffic jam in an intertidal rocky crack.
Littorinas demonstrations in the tidal pool!

Olivier

Le 08/12/2015 14:57, Ellen Bulger a écrit :
> I've had second thoughts about using encrustation for any of our lovely
> mollusks. It is too disrespectful. I think a bedazzlement of limpets is
> better.
> 
> Chitons on a rock look like some kind of rank-indicating trim on a military
> uniform. An embroidery doesn't suit because there is nothing fabric like
> about a rocky substrate. I don't know the proper term for such military
> spinach. Epaulets possibly, though those are limited to the shoulders and
> come in pairs, so maybe not. A decoration of chitons? An embellishment of
> chitons?
> 
> Someone had suggested a haberdashery of helmets, but I beg to differ.
> Helmets are armor and not haberdashery at all, stylish though they may be.
> An armory of helmets? A protection of helmets? I don't know...

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