Costasiella arenaria Shawn the Sheep Sea Slug

Costasiella arenaria is commonly referred to as Shawn the Sheep Sea Slug. Difficulty in the aquarium: There are no reports available yet that this animal has already been kept in captivity successfully. Toxicity: Toxic hazard unknown.

Profile

lexID:

12191 

AphiaID:

828462 

Scientific:

Costasiella arenaria 

German:

Saftsauger 

English:

Shawn The Sheep Sea Slug 

Category:

 

Family tree:

Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Gastropoda (Class) > Sacoglossa (Order) > Costasiellidae (Family) > Costasiella (Genus) > arenaria (Species) 

Initial determination:

K. R. Jensen, Krug, Dupont & Nishina, 2014 

Occurrence:

Florida, USA 

Sea depth:

Meter 

Size:

up to 0.39" (1 cm) 

Food:

Algae (Algivore), No reliable information available, Zoobenthos 

Difficulty:

There are no reports available yet that this animal has already been kept in captivity successfully 

Offspring:

None 

Toxicity:

Toxic hazard unknown 

CITES:

Not evaluated 

Red List:

Not evaluated (NE) 

Related species at
Catalog of Life:

• 
  Costasiella arenaria
  Saftsauger
• Costasiella coronata
• 
  Costasiella formicaria
  Saftsauger
• Costasiella illa
• Costasiella iridophora
• 
  Costasiella kuroshimae
  Kuro Saftsauger
• Costasiella mandorahae
• Costasiella nonatoi
• 
  Costasiella ocellifera
  Augenfleck Costasiella, Saftsauger-Schnecke, Schaun das Schaf, Blatt-Schäfchen
• Costasiella pallida
• Costasiella patricki
• Costasiella paweli
• Costasiella rubrolineata
• 
  Costasiella usagi
  Kaninchen Saftsauger
• 
  Costasiella vegae
  Saftsauger
• 
  Costasiella virescens
  Grüner Saftsauger
• Alle anzeigen

 

More related species
in this lexicon:

• 
  Costasiella fridae
  Fridas Costasiella, Blatt-Schaaf
• 
  Costasiella sp.01
  Saftsauger

 

Author:

Meerwasser-Lexikon Team

Publisher:

Meerwasser-Lexikon.de

Created:

2019-07-03 20:17:15 

Last edit:

2019-07-03 20:38:36 

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