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Leidyula floridana, a slug species native to the Caribbean (Cuba to Jamaica) and southern Florida, has extended its range to northern Florida. It is also found in Louisiana and Texas . [ 4 ] As a non-native species, it has been identified in Mexico , [ 3 ] Nicaragua , [ 5 ] and Cuba .
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 ...
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.
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.
Costasiella ocellifera is a small (5–13 mm) species of sea slug, a shell-less marine gastropod mollusk in the family Costasiellidae. [2] Costasiella ocellifera, and other members of the Costasiellidae family are often mistakenly classified as nudibranchs because they superficially resemble other species of that group, but they are actually a part of the Sacoglossa superorder of sea slugs ...
This species is found under rocks and coral rubble. [7] For example in Florida it is sometimes found among Porites porites corals. [2] They are laying large, translucent and gelatinous egg masses during spring in Florida. [2] All species in the genus Pleurobranchus are carnivorous. [6] P. areolatus probably feeds on ascidians, [7] for example ...
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.
Dendronotus is a genus of sea slugs, nudibranchs, marine gastropod molluscs in the superfamily Tritonioidea. [ 1 ] This genus is within the clade Cladobranchia (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005 ).