
The Sea Slug Forum - Home Page
Welcome to the Sea Slug Forum On the Sea Slug Forum you can ask questions, post information and find out more about nudibranchs, bubble-shells, sea hares and other sea slugs. This site aims to generate more interest in these fascinating animals by sharing information with a worldwide audience. The Forum is a useful tool for anyone with an interest in sea slugs from scientists …
Species list - The Sea Slug Forum
Species list The following list of fact sheets contains information on hundreds of species of sea slugs from around the world. New species are added regularly in response to discussions on the Forum. Linked to each fact sheet are Forum messages and responses. Acanthodoris brunnea Acanthodoris hudsoni Acanthodoris lutea Acanthodoris nanaimoensis Acanthodoris pilosa …
Symbiosis, commensalism, mutualism and parasitism - Sea Slug …
2009年2月11日 · There are some examples of symbiosis involving sea slugs at the top of this page (Symbiosis & commensalism) and at Solar-powered sea slugs here in the Sea Slug Forum.
The Sea Slug Forum - General topics
General topics Everything you ever wanted to know about sea slugs including behaviour, anatomy, aquarium FAQs and associated marine animals and plants. New and interesting topics are added regularly, often in response to an inquiry. About the Forum Aquarium FAQs (including pests and hitchhikers on live rock) Body shape, anatomy and body parts Feeding, predation, …
The Sea Slug Forum - What eats sea slugs?
Sea Stars that eat Sea Slugs January 24, 2002 From: Daniel Dear Bill, I have had trouble finding this out using other sites and books, and was wondering if you could help me. I was wondering if you knew of any sea stars that ate sea slugs (such as Flabellina iodinea) in the Point Reyes area (North of San Francisco in northern California).
Sea Slug Forum - Book reviews
Y. Camacho-Garcia, T.M. Gosliner, A. Valdes Field Guide to the Sea Slugs of the tropical eastern Pacific G.Cobb & R.C.Willan Undersea Jewels - A colour guide to Nudibranchs Neville Coleman Nudibranchs of the South Pacific Vol.1 Neville Coleman 1001 Nudibranchs - Catalogue of Indo-Pacific Sea Slugs Helmut Debelius
The Sea Slug Forum - Mating chains
Sea Hares, like all sea slugs, are hermaphrodite animals with fully functional male and female reproductive organs. Sometimes, usually in dense populations or in crowded aquariums, they form mating chains of three or more animals, the one at the front acting solely as a female and the one at the rear solely as a male.
The Sea Slug Forum - Digestive system of a dorid nudibranch
2000年6月30日 · Most sea slugs have salivary glands which secrete digestive juices into the buccal bulb to help start the digestive process. From the buccal bulb the food moves back through a tube called the oesophagus to the stomach, which in dorids is usually a fairly small chamber, with ducts leading off to the digestive gland.
The Sea Slug Forum - Rhinophore in nudibranchs
2007年6月28日 · We smell scents and odours with our nose, which has special receptors to sense the chemical molecules in the air. In nudibranchs, and other marine animals, the same sort of chemicals are dissolved in the sea water. In many Sea Slugs this is how they find their food.
The Sea Slug Forum - What are Sea Hares?
2007年3月27日 · Sea Hares are not normally considered dangerous, and the ink is not known to be poisonous, but there is one large species in Western Australia - Aplysia gigantea - which often washes up on the beaches in large numbers. Dogs that investigate - and lick - the stranded slugs can quickly become very sick and die.