Biology:Elysia lobata
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Short description: Species of gastropod
| Elysia lobata | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Heterobranchia |
| Family: | Plakobranchidae |
| Genus: | Elysia |
| Species: | E. lobata
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| Binomial name | |
| Elysia lobata Gould, 1852[1]
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Elysia lobata is a species of sea slug, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Plakobranchidae.[1] 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
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Elysia lobata Gould, 1852". MolluscaBase. World Register of Marine Species. 2022. http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=494457.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Elysia lobata Gould, 1852 The Sea Slug Forum. Retrieved 2012-01-23.
Wikidata ☰ Q5368549 entry
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