🐚Elysia chlorotica
Elysia chlorotica is a small-to-medium-sized species of green sea slug, a marine opisthobranch gastropod mollusc. This sea slug superficially resembles a nudibranch, yet it does not belong to that clade. Instead it is a member of the clade Sacoglossa, the sap-sucking sea slugs. Some members of this group use chloroplasts from the algae they eat for photosynthesis, a phenomenon known as kleptoplasty. Elysia chlorotica is one species of such "solar-powered sea slugs". It lives in a subcellular endosymbiotic relationship with chloroplasts of the marine heterokont alga Vaucheria litorea.
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- kingdomAnimalia
- ›phylumMollusca
- ›classGastropoda
- ›familyPlakobranchidae
- ›genusElysia
- ›speciesElysia chlorotica
- phylumMolluscs · Mollusca
- classSnails & slugs · Gastropoda
- familyPlakobranchidae
- genusElysia
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- kingdomMetazoa
- phylumMolluscs · Mollusca
- classSnails & slugs · Gastropoda
- orderSacoglossa
- suborderPlakobranchacea
- superfamilyPlakobranchoidea
- familyPlakobranchidae
- genusElysia
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