Image of Hooded sea slug
Description:
These nudibranchs swarm onto the kelp beds off Del Monte Beach, lay egg masses, and then, inexplicably, swim off destination unknown. The large oral hood sweeps about entrapping plankton.
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- Life
- Cellular
- Eukaryota (eukaryotes)
- Opisthokonta (opisthokonts)
- Metazoa (animals)
- Bilateria
- Protostomia (protostomes)
- Spiralia (spiralians)
- Mollusca (molluscs)
- Gastropoda (snails)
- Heterobranchia
- Nudibranchia (Nudibranchs)
- Cladobranchia
- Tethydidae
- Melibe
- Melibe leonina (Hooded sea slug)
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Source Information
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- cc-by-nc-sa-3.0
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- 2005 California Academy of Sciences
- photographer
- Lovell and Libby Langstroth
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