Also called ‘armadillo’.
Shell large with steeply arched grey or brown valves, usually badly eroded. Girdle brown and dotted with distinct tufts of small brown hairs.
70 to 100 mm in length.
Usually found partially or totally buried in sand on flat rocky reefs. Sometimes used as bait by fishermen and eaten by some people, although tough and leathery. Replaced in the northern Transkei and Natal by another giant chiton, Dinoplax validifossus, in which the girdle hairs are uniformly distributed, not concentrated into tufts.
Two Oceans: A Guide to the Marine Life of Southern Africa (2007).
F*CK FISH 