Image of Opalescent sea slug
Description:
These nudibranch carnivores feed principally on hydroids, anemones and corals and store their prey's nematocysts (stinging cells) in the dorsal processes , useful for defense. Length 35 mm, depth 10 m.
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- Life (creatures)
- Cellular (cellular organisms)
- Eukaryota (eukaryotes)
- Opisthokonta (opisthokonts)
- Metazoa (Animal)
- Bilateria
- Protostomia (protostomes)
- Spiralia (spiralians)
- Mollusca (molluscs)
- Gastropoda (snails)
- Heterobranchia
- Nudibranchia (Nudibranchs)
- Cladobranchia
- Aeolidioidea
- Hermissenda
- Hermissenda crassicornis (Opalescent sea slug)
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- 2005 California Academy of Sciences
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- Lovell and Libby Langstroth
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