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Like all sea hares, the California sea hare is hermaphroditic, simultaneously acting as male and female during mating. A. californica is known to form mating chains with up to 20 animals. The eggs are yellow-green, and change after 8–9 days into a brown color before larvae hatch. Mating is most prominent during the summer following water ...
Aplysia vaccaria, also known as the black sea hare and California black sea hare, is a species of extremely large sea slug, a marine, opisthobranch, gastropod mollusk in the family Aplysiidae. [1] It is the largest sea slug species.
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 (/ 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.
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.
Eight species of rabbits and hares occur in California. Pygmy rabbit, Brachylagus idahoensis (CDFW special concern, harvest) Snowshoe hare, Lepus americanus (harvest) Oregon snowshoe hare, L. a. klamathensis (CDFW special concern) Sierra Nevada snowshoe hare, L. a. tahoensis (CDFW special concern; endemic)
California sea hare, California brown sea hare Aplysia vaccaria: Black sea hare Order Cephalaspidea, shieldheaded slugs. Species Common name Acteocina cerealis:
The Seacat is a flat sea hare that grows to about 10 cm long. [6] The maximum recorded length is 108 mm. [7] It is commonly spotty green or brown, but it can also be reddish. [6] The animal's back half is typically wider and rounded, it narrows towards the head. [6] Warty Seacats are soft-bodied gastropods, who have lost a protective shell over ...