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Lettuce Sea Slug

Elysia crispata

Seabook: Lettuce Sea Slug

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25 m

Description

Elysia crispata is a large and colorful species of sea slug, a marine gastropod mollusk. The lettuce slug resembles a nudibranch, but it is not closely related to that clade of gastropods; it is classified as a sacoglossan. Description This species is called the lettuce slug because it is often green in color, and i... Read more in Seabook

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Habitat and Environment

Benthic

Coral reef