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The surface of the body of this species is almost transparent. It and the cerata and rhinophoral sheaths are completely covered with multiple, tiny tubercles that are white and opaque. The surface has blotches that are white and opaque as well as multiple orange flecks. The internal organs appear orange-brownish.
The name "sea slug" is also often applied to the sacoglossans (clade Sacoglossa), the so-called sap-sucking or solar-powered sea slugs which are frequently a shade of green. Another group of main gastropods that are often labeled as "sea slugs" are the various families of headshield slugs and bubble snails within the clade Cephalaspidea.
Two very elegant species of Sea-slug, viz., Eolis punctata [i.e. Facelina annulicornis], and Tritonia arborescens [i.e. Dendronotus frondosus], certainly produce audible sounds. Professor Grant, who first observed the interesting fact in some specimens of the latter, which he was keeping in an aquarium, says of the sounds that 'they resemble ...
[4] [3] This species is part of a complex that comprises Felimida binza (Ev. Marcus & Er. Marcus, 1963). [3] [2] These species share a similar reticular pattern of yellow and red pigment and morphology. [3] Felimida neona was described under the name Glossodoris neona by Ernst Marcus in Brazil in 1955. [1] It was also known as the "Neon Sea ...
There are many thousands of species of sea snails and slugs, as well as freshwater snails, freshwater limpets, land snails and slugs. The class Gastropoda is a diverse and highly successful class of mollusks within the phylum Mollusca. It contains a vast total of named species, second only to the insects in overall number.
A unique new species of sea slug Bathydevius typically lives thousands of feet below the surface, far from the coastal tide pools or kelp forests that many sea slugs prefer. It also captures its ...
Peltodoris atromaculata, more commonly known as the dotted sea slug or sea cow, is a species of sea slug, a dorid nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Discodorididae. [1] It dwells in salt water up to the depth of 40m. It is exclusively found in precorralligene and coralligene communities and is very common in such communities. [2]
6 species Hexabranchidae is a family of colourful nudibranchs (often called "sea slugs") which contains only a single genus, Hexabranchus , with six species. This family is one of the many families of dorid nudibranchs in the suborder Doridina, named after Doris , who was a sea nymph in ancient Greek mythology.