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sooty seahare

Aplysia morio

Classification

Aplysia morio, the Atlantic black sea hare or sooty sea hare, is a species of sea slug, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Aplysiidae, the sea hares. It lives in warm waters in the Caribbean Sea and off the south and southeastern coast of the United States, where it feeds on seaweed. Description (Original description) A very large species, exceeding a foot in length; dark umber-brown or nearly black in color, without definite spots, but bearing black stripes on the head and possessing very large, broadly overlapping lateral flaps.

Distribution

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United States of America · 155Mexico · 6Brazil · 2