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What is underneath a chiton that helps it move?

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As with snails, the mollusks known as chitons have a broad "foot" down the center of their undersides. This allows slow locomotion over rock surfaces, from which the mouth scrapes algae for food. (The mouth is also on the bottom, but there is no separate head.)

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