Dappled Taco Slug

Elysia rufescens

Classification

Class: Gastropoda
Order: —
Family: Plakobranchidae

Elysia rufescens is a species of sea slug, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Plakobranchidae. This sea slug resembles a nudibranch but is not classified in that order of gastropods, instead belonging to a closely related clade, Sacoglossa, the "sap-sucking" sea slugs. This species was first described by Pease from Tahiti in 1871.

Distribution

Dappled Taco Slug — (c) Daniel Eisenhauer, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

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Countries in the Picchu catalog

United States of America · 46France · 6

Sources and credits

Photo(c) Daniel Eisenhauer, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY DescriptionElysia rufescens, Wikipedia contributors

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