''Ercolania kencolesi'' is a
species
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of
sacoglossa
Sacoglossa, commonly known as the sacoglossans or the "solar-powered sea slugs", are a superorder of small sea slugs and sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks that belong to the clade Heterobranchia. Sacoglossans live by ingesting the cellular co ...
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sea slug
Sea slug is a common name for some marine invertebrates with varying levels of resemblance to terrestrial slugs. Most creatures known as sea slugs are gastropods, i.e. they are sea snails (marine gastropod mollusks) that over evolutionary time ...
, a shell-less
marine opisthobranch gastropod mollusk
Mollusca is the second-largest phylum of invertebrate animals after the Arthropoda, the members of which are known as molluscs or mollusks (). Around 85,000 extant species of molluscs are recognized. The number of fossil species is e ...
in the family
Limapontiidae
Limapontiidae is a Taxonomy (biology), taxonomic family (biology), family of small to minute sacoglossan sea slugs. These are marine (ocean), marine opisthobranch gastropod mollusks.Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S. (2011). Limapontiidae. Accessed through: ...
.
This sea slug lives on the alga ''
Boergesenia forbesii'' and also within its tubes.
Sea Slug Forum, accessed 10 February 2010. It also feed on this alga.
References
Limapontiidae
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