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unusual facts about sea slug



Cadlina sparsa

Cadlina sparsa, common name the Dark-spot cadlina, is a species of sea slug or dorid nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cadlinidae.

Detachable Penis

They discovered that the sea slug Chromodoris reticulata sloughs off its penis after sex, then grows a new one within approximately 24 hours.


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Coghlan Island

Coghlan Island was noted as the northernmost location of specimens of Triopha catalinae, a type of sea slug.

Countershading

Similarly in the sea slug Glaucus atlanticus, the reverse countershading is associated with inverted habits.

M. leonina

Melibe leonina, the hooded nudibranch or the lion nudibranch, a predatory sea slug species

William Harper Pease

One of the genera he described and named was the sea slug genus: Philinopsis Pease, 1860