Sea Slug Facts
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Sea Slug
Related Category: Zoology: Invertebrates
name for a marine gastropod mollusk that lacks a shell as an adult and is usually brightly colored.
Sea slugs are also called nudibranchs.
Nudibranchs are simultaneous hermaphrodites, which means that they possess both male and female sex organs at the same time.
Sea Slugs (Nudibranchs)
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Some sea slugs are very brightly colored. This serves either as a warning, when they are poisonous or contain stinging cells, or to camouflage them on the brightly-colored hydroids, sponges and seaweeds on which many of the species are found.
These "sea slugs" eat hydroids and anemones, which are armed with nematocysts (stinging capsules).
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