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2 unusual facts about Kleptoplasty


Kleptoplasty

The only known animals that practice kleptoplasty are sea slugs in the clade Sacoglossa.

Some species of nudibranchs such as Pteraeolidia ianthina sequester whole living symbiotic zooxanthellae within their digestive diverticula, and thus they also manage to be "solar-powered".


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