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Thuridilla kathae sapsucking slug,Kathy's Thuridilla


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Thuridilla kathae, 2021


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lexID:
9648 
AphiaID:
494497 
Scientific:
Thuridilla kathae 
German:
Saftsauger,Kathy's Thuridilla 
English:
Sapsucking Slug,Kathy's Thuridilla 
Category:
Sacoglossa 
Family tree:
Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Gastropoda (Class) > Sacoglossa (Order) > Plakobranchidae (Family) > Thuridilla (Genus) > kathae (Species) 
Initial determination:
Gosliner, 1995 
Occurrence:
Great Barrier Reef, Hawaii, Indo Pacific 
Size:
0.28" - 0.47" (0.7cm - 1.2cm) 
Temperature:
°F - 82.4 °F (°C - 28°C) 
Food:
Algae (Algivore) 
Difficulty:
Not suitable for aquarium keeping 
Offspring:
None 
Toxicity:
Toxic hazard unknown 
CITES:
Not evaluated 
Red List:
Not evaluated (NE) 
Related species at
Catalog of Life
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Author:
Publisher:
Meerwasser-Lexikon.de
Created:
Last edit:
2016-04-17 12:52:09 

Info

Thuridilla kathae Gosliner, 1995

This species has a cream body, the low parapodia meet in several irregular folds.The parapodia with brown and white spots, and creme marginal lines.On the head white flecks form a Y-like pattern.Orange around the eyes.

Thuridilla kathae is found on rocky bottoms(1-5 m depht)on filamentous algae The egg mass is an orange spiral.

External links

  1. Sea Slug Forum (en). Abgerufen am 07.08.2020.
  2. Seaslugs of Hawaii (en). Abgerufen am 07.08.2020.
  3. World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) (en). Abgerufen am 07.08.2020.

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