Elysia lobata
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Elysia lobata is a species of sea slug, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Plakobranchidae. This sea slug resembles a nudibranch, but it is not closely related to that order of gastropods, instead it is a sacoglossan.
Description
Elysia lobata can grow to a length of 15 millimetres (0.59 in). In his original short description of the species in 1852, Augustus Addison Gould wrote: "Animal slug-like, greenish, dotted with black, and bordered with yellow; edge of mantle expanded in to a three lobed lateral wing. Head small with very large and long tentacles, tipped with sky-blue".[2]
Distribution
Elysia lobata is found in Hawaii, the Marshall Islands and parts of Japan.[2]
References
- ^ Bouchet, Philippe (2010). "Elysia lobata Gould, 1852". WoRMS. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 2012-01-23.
- ^ a b Elysia lobata Gould, 1852 The Sea Slug Forum. Retrieved 2012-01-23.