Thuridilla hoffae Hoff's Sapsucking Slug

Thuridilla hoffae, Tanzania 2021

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AphiaID:: 494495

Scientific:: Thuridilla hoffae
German:: Hoffs Thuridilla, Saftsauger
English:: Hoff's Sapsucking Slug

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Family tree:: Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Gastropoda (Class) > Sacoglossa (Order) > Plakobranchidae (Family) > Thuridilla (Genus) > hoffae (Species)
Initial determination:: Gosliner, 1995

Occurrence:: Indo Pacific, Komodo (Komodo Island), Mayotte, Papua New Guinea, Western Pacific Ocean
Size:: 0.24" - 0.79" (0.6cm - 2cm)
Temperature:: 71.6 °F - 80.6 °F (22°C - 27°C)
Food:: Algae (Algivore), Food specialist
Difficulty:: Not suitable for aquarium keeping
Offspring:: None
Toxicity:: Toxic hazard unknown

CITES:

Not evaluated

Red List:

Not evaluated (NE)

Related species at Catalog of Life:

More related species in this lexicon:

Author:: Meerwasser-Lexikon Team
Publisher:: Meerwasser-Lexikon.de
Created:: 2015-01-03 15:52:08
Last edit:: 2015-01-03 15:52:08

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Thuridilla hoffae Gosliner, 1995

The background colour is blue-black, the rhinophores are bright blue with black-blue tip.Parapodia are yellow-orange and bright blue borderd.

Thuridilla sea slugs use the chloroplasts from the green algae, their diet, therefore this nudibranch is one of the "solar-powered slugs".

Similar to Thuridilla livida.

External links

Sea Slug Forum (en). Abgerufen am 07.08.2020.
Seaslugs.free.fr (en). Abgerufen am 07.08.2020.

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