Elysia chlorotica is a small-to-medium-sized species of green sea slug, a marine opisthobranch gastropod mollusc. Though it superficially resembles a nudibranch, it does not belong to that clade, instead belonging to the sap-sucking sea slug clade Sacoglossa; it lives in a subcellular endosymbiotic relationship with chloroplasts taken from the marine alga Vaucheria litorea, a phenomenon called kleptoplasty that gives it the nickname the solar-powered sea slug.
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1. Elysia chlorotica (Wikidata)
Wikidata- Wikipedia 'Elysia chlorotica': one species of such 'solar-powered sea slugs', living in endosymbiotic relationship with chloroplasts
Wikidata Q133568 (P1034 main food source): Vaucheria litorea
Main food source (Wikidata property P1034): Vaucheria litorea.
- Child Taxon Of: Gastropoda, Wikidata parent-taxon (P171) chain
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Elysia chlorotica (common name the eastern emerald elysia) is a small-to-medium-sized species of green sea slug, a marine opisthobranch gastropod mollusc.
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Elysia chlorotica (common name the eastern emerald elysia) is a small-to-medium-sized species of green sea slug, a marine opisthobranch gastropod mollusc.
View the Source3. Wikipedia: Elysia chlorotica
IUCN Red List of Threatened Species
Wikidata: Elysia chlorotica
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