Re:Costasiella kuroshimae – Solar Powered animals, that do i...
by iwd on Wednesday April 15, 2026 @07:45AM
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I just got to see a different species of kleptoplastic sea slugs in the wild last month, on a kayak tour of the mangroves around Key West. Our guide scooped some lettuce sea slugs up in a plastic container (and then returned them safely). They were bigger, about 3 inches long, with a wavy/frilly green border. It made my biologist heart very happy!
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Re:Costasiella kuroshimae – Solar Powered animals, that do i...
by throwup238 on Wednesday April 15, 2026 @09:06AM
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That was likely a sea slug from the Nudibranchia order (they resemble lettuce sea slugs sometimes) which are a bit different from Sacoglassa order slugs like the one in TFA in that they carry symbiotic algae colonies, rather than digesting them and keeping the chloroplasts like Sacoglassa.