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Aplysia (/ ə ˈ p l ɪ ʒ (i) ə /) is a genus of medium-sized to extremely large sea slugs, specifically sea hares, which are a kind of marine gastropod mollusk. These benthic herbivorous creatures can become rather large compared with most other mollusks.
In Hawaii, sea hares, or kualakai, are typically cooked in an imu wrapped in ti leaves. [citation needed] Aplysia californica is a species of sea hare noteworthy for its use in studies of the neurobiology of learning and memory, due to its unusually large axons. It is especially associated with the work of Nobel Laureate Eric Kandel. [11]
Aplysia vaccaria has a lifecycle of one year. [4] They grow very quickly, at an average rate of 4.9 g/day. [5] This high rate of growth allows A. vaccaria to become the largest known species of sea slug. [2] It is a herbivore that feeds on brown algae, but its close relative A. californica feeds almost exclusively on red algae. [6]
The California sea hare (Aplysia californica) is a species of sea slug in the sea hare family, Aplysiidae. [2] It is found in the Pacific Ocean, off the coast of California in the United States and northwestern Mexico.
Aplysiidae is the only family in the superfamily Aplysioidea, within the clade Anaspidea. [1] These animals are commonly called sea hares because, unlike most sea slugs, they are often quite large, and when they are underwater, their rounded body shape and the long rhinophores on their heads mean that their overall shape resembles that of a sitting rabbit or hare.
Aplysia fasciata, common name the "mottled sea hare", or the "sooty sea hare", is an Atlantic species of sea hare or sea slug, a marine opisthobranch gastropod mollusk in the family Aplysiidae. [ 1 ] Distribution
Aplysia dactylomela, the spotted sea hare, is a species of large sea slug, a marine opisthobranch gastropod in the family Aplysiidae, the sea hares. [ 1 ] Distribution and taxonomy
Aplysia morio, the Atlantic black sea hare or sooty sea hare, is a species of sea slug, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Aplysiidae, the sea hares.It lives in warm waters in the Caribbean Sea and off the south and southeastern coast of the United States, where it feeds on seaweed.