Elysia lobata is a species of sea slug, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Plakobranchidae.[1] This sea slug resembles a nudibranch, but it is not closely related to that order of gastropods, instead it is a sacoglossan.
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Family: | Plakobranchidae |
| Genus: | Elysia |
| Species: | E. lobata
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| Binomial name | |
| Elysia lobata | |
Description
editElysia lobata can grow to a length of 15 millimetres (0.59 in). In his original short description of the species in 1852, Augustus Addison Gould wrote: "Animal slug-like, greenish, dotted with black, and bordered with yellow; edge of mantle expanded in to a three lobed lateral wing. Head small with very large and long tentacles, tipped with sky-blue".[2]
Distribution
editElysia lobata is found in Hawaii, the Marshall Islands and parts of Japan.[2]
References
edit- ^ a b Bieler R, Bouchet P, Gofas S, Marshall B, Rosenberg G, La Perna R, Neubauer TA, Sartori AF, Schneider S, Vos C, ter Poorten JJ, Taylor J, Dijkstra H, Finn J, Bank R, Neubert E, Moretzsohn F, Faber M, Houart R, Picton B, Garcia-Alvarez O, eds. (2022). "Elysia lobata Gould, 1852". MolluscaBase. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 2 March 2022.
- ^ a b Elysia lobata Gould, 1852 The Sea Slug Forum. Retrieved 2012-01-23.