Lettuce Sea Slug

Elysia crispata

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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

Locations

Bonaire Caribbean Sea Gulf of Mexico Costa Rica Honduras East +29 more in Seabook

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Benthic

Coral reef

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