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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Elysia chlorotica (common name the eastern emerald elysia) is a small-to-medium-sized species of green sea slug, a marine opisthobranch gastropod mollusc.
2. Wikipedia: Elysia chlorotica
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