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Observations on the Benthic Heterobranch “Sea Slugs” (Mollusca: Gastropoda) of Lampedusa, the Southernmost Island of Italy (MPA Isole Pelagie)

Journal of Marine Science and Engineering
Thanks to their striking shapes and colors, heterobranch “sea slugs” are probably the most sought-after group of marine critters by scuba divers around the world.
Andrea Lombardo, Giuliana Marletta
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Sea Slugs—“Rare in Space and Time”—But Not Always

Diversity, 2020
The term “rare in space and time” is often used to typify the spatial and temporal patterns of occurrence of heterobranch sea slugs. However, “rare” in this context has not been clearly defined.
Julie Schubert, Stephen D. A. Smith
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Shallow water heterobranch sea slugs (Gastropoda: Heterobranchia) from the Región de Atacama, northern Chile [PDF]

PeerJ, 2016
The coast of northern Chile has been sparsely studied in regards to its invertebrate fauna, with just a few works reviewing the distribution of local mollusks.
Juan Francisco Araya, Ángel Valdés
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Heterobranch Sea Slugs s.l. (Mollusca, Gastropoda) from the Southern Ocean: Biodiversity and Taxonomy

Diversity
The Southern Ocean, located between Antarctica and the southern tips of South America, Africa and Australia, encompasses an immense area across the southern Atlantic, Pacific and Indian oceans with no clearly defined limits.
Manuel Ballesteros, Alex Hopkins, Miquel Salicrú, Matt J. Nimbs   +3 more
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Selective consumption of sacoglossan sea slugs (Mollusca: Gastropoda) by scleractinian corals (Cnidaria: Anthozoa) [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2019
Manuel Caballer Gutierrez, Suchana Chavanich, Rahul Mehrotra   +2 more
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Profiling of Heterobranchia Sea Slugs from Portuguese Coastal Waters as Producers of Anti-Cancer and Anti-Inflammatory Agents [PDF]

Molecules, 2018
Calado G, Patricia Valentão, Fatima Fernandes   +2 more
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Prey species and abundance affect growth and photosynthetic performance of the polyphagous sea slug Elysia crispata

Royal Society Open Science, 2023
Some sacoglossan sea slugs steal functional macroalgal chloroplasts (kleptoplasts). In this study, we investigated the effects of algal prey species and abundance on the growth and photosynthetic capacity of the tropical polyphagous sea slug Elysia ...
Paulo Cartaxana, Luca Morelli, Elena Cassin, Vesa Havurinne, Miguel Cabral, Sónia Cruz   +5 more
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Prevalence and Photobiology of Photosynthetic Dinoflagellate Endosymbionts in the Nudibranch Berghia stephanieae

Animals, 2021
Berghia stephanieae is a stenophagous sea slug that preys upon glass anemones, such as Exaiptasia diaphana. Glass anemones host photosynthetic dinoflagellate endosymbionts that sea slugs ingest when consuming E. diaphana. However, the prevalence of these
Ruben X. G. Silva, Paulo Cartaxana, Ricardo Calado   +2 more
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Sea Slug Mucus Production Is Supported by Photosynthesis of Stolen Chloroplasts

Biology, 2022
A handful of sea slugs of the order Sacoglossa are able to steal chloroplasts—kleptoplasts—from their algal food sources and maintain them functionally for periods ranging from several weeks to a few months.
Diana Lopes, Sónia Cruz, Patrícia Martins, Sónia Ferreira, Cláudia Nunes, Pedro Domingues, Paulo Cartaxana   +6 more
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Cladobranchia (Gastropoda, Nudibranchia) as a Promising Model to Understand the Molecular Evolution of Photosymbiosis in Animals

Frontiers in Marine Science, 2022
Symbiosis with photoautotrophic organisms has evolved in various species and even whole animal lineages, which allowed them to directly benefit from photosynthesis.
Marcellina Rola, Silja Frankenbach, Sabrina Bleidissel, Corinna Sickinger, Alexander Donath, Jörg C. Frommlet, Carola Greve, João Serôdio, Angelika Preisfeld, Jenny Melo Clavijo, Gregor Christa   +10 more
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