Aplysia vaccaria have a life cycle of one year. The black sea hare can grow to be very large: the longest recorded specimen measured 99 cm (39 in) when crawling (and thus fully extended), and weighed nearly 14 kg (31 lb).Unlike many other members of the same family and genus, this species is incapable of producing ink. A striking blue dragon sea slug that eats bluebottles and can give a powerful sting has been washing ashore and capturing the imagination of residents on the north coast of New South Wales.The unusual, soft-bodied nudibranch is sometimes described as resembling a dragon in flight, a Pokemon or a blue lizard, and goes by the official name of glaucus atlanticus.Australian Marine Stinger Advisory Service director, Dr Lisa Gershwin, said it was a fascinating little creature.“I think they look like a lizard, they have the little head, arms, feet, and fingers and toes, and tail, but then they have these fantastic blue, black and silver racing stripes that just make them unmistakable,” she said.Similar to bluebottles, the blue dragon nudibranchs float on the surface of the water and normally spend most of their time in the open ocean.Dr Gershwin said regular onshore winds along the northern NSW and Queensland coastline this summer had been washing them onto beaches.“Like bluebottles, they hang out right at the air/water interface, and are all floating, living as a community together, so when the wind blows it moves all of them,” she said.“Every time we get a big swarm, or armada, of bluebottles washing in, the glaucus [nudibranchs] are usually with them as well.”The small sea slugs are only about only 25 millimetres long, which means they are often overlooked in between beached bluebottles.Port Macquarie-based surf school instructor Corey Enfield said, despite their unassuming size, he had seen a surprisingly large number on local beaches recently.“I saw a whole bunch of the little blue nudibranchs at local Flynn’s Beach the other afternoon,” he said.“They are beautiful to look at. The common name, sea hare, is derived from the large anterior tentacles that are ear-like and were thought by some to resemble the ears of a hare. It is a marine snail that has an interior small remnant of a shell and no external shell. The Sargassum sea slug, Scyllaea pelagica, is commonly found floating in clusters Sargassum algae.With leaflike projections on its body, this nudibranch is able to blend seamlessly with its environment. They grow very quickly, at an average rate of 4.9 grams per day.
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I became aware of them about two or three seasons ago and I’ve seen them maybe three or four times,” he said.Dr Gershwhin said the blue dragon sea slug’s favourite food was bluebottles and other pelagic creatures.She said it meant the nudibranch packed a powerful sting, as it could store the bluebottle stinging cells in its ‘fingers’.“When they are floating and come into their prey … they just start munching away,” she said.“They are able to store the stinging cells from their prey, that is, bluebottles, in their little … fingers and toes and then use them for their own defence.
They do NOT have naked gills and adults DO have an internal shell. Loading... Unsubscribe from huff1013? Life cycle and behavior. 4 Comments April 2, 2020 Now don’t you feel better knowing that: (1) Not all sea slugs have naked gills and hence not all sea slugs are nudibranchs; (2) However, all nudibranchs are sea slugs. If observed closely, flecks of red can be seen on the shell.
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