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Elysia crispata
Species of gastropod / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Elysia crispata, common name the lettuce sea slug or lettuce slug, is a large and colorful species of sea slug, a marine gastropod mollusk.[1]
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Lettuce sea slug | |
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A live individual of the lettuce sea slug in situ, head end towards the lower right | |
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Heterobranchia |
Family: | Plakobranchidae |
Genus: | Elysia |
Species: | E. crispata |
Binomial name | |
Elysia crispata (Mörch, 1863) | |
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The lettuce slug resembles a nudibranch, but it is not closely related to that clade of gastropods; it is classified as a sacoglossan.