Ornate Sap-sucking Slug

Q: Where can you find Ornate Sap-sucking Slug?

Ornate Sap-sucking Slug can be found in: Bali, Egypt East, Laccadive Islands, Mariana Islands, Australia West, Saudi Arabia West, Honduras East, Malaysia East, Costa Rica, Taiwan, Cuba West, Panama East, USA East, Mexico South East, Australia North, Marshall Islands, USA South East, Costa Rica East, Malaysia West, Pacific East, Somalia East, Vanuatu, Sudan, Venezuela, Belize, Brunei, China, Myanmar, Eritrea, Australia, Hong Kong, Kenya, Lesser Antilles, India, Israel, Egypt North, Mexico East, Cuba East, Japan South, India East, India West, Thailand East, Thailand West, Turkey West, Israel North, Israel South, Oman, Oman East, Colombia North, Somalia North, Nicaragua East, Sri Lanka, Maldives, Vietnam, Bermuda, Seychelles, Cambodia, Indo-Pacific, Papua New Guinea, Mediterranean Sea, Trinidad & Tobago, Lebanon, Polynesia, Singapore, Tanzania, Malaysia, Dominican Republic, USA, Honduras, South Africa, Red Sea, Japan, Cuba, Indonesia, Chagos Islands, Mexico, Mozambique, Jordan, Palau, Philippines, Solomon Islands, New Caledonia, Micronesia, Egypt, Yemen, Mascarene Islands, Madagascar, Jamaica, Kiribati, Djibouti, Puerto Rico, Syria, Comoros, Palestine, Haiti, Bahamas, Thailand, Turkey, Panama, Saudi Arabia, Pacific Ocean, Colombia, Somalia, Nicaragua, Virgin Islands (U.S.), Virgin Islands (U.K.).

Elysia ornata

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Elysia ornata is a species of sea slug, a marine gastropod mollusk. This sea slug superficially resembles a nudibranch, yet it does not belong to that suborder of gastropods. Instead it is a member of the closely related clade Sacoglossa, the "sap-sucking" sea slugs.

Other names: Ornate Elysia or Ornate Leaf Slug.

Description

Elysia ornata can grow to about 5 centimetres (2.0 in) in length. It is a translucent greenish-yellow colour speckled with white and black. It has broad parapodia each edged with an orange band and a black margin. Sometimes there is a white line between the orange and yellow bands. The rhinophores are similarly coloured with a band of orange and dark tips.

A very similarly coloured species, from the Indo-West Pacific, Elysia grandifolia, has much larger, very thin parapodia.