A sea slug
Hero formosa on sediment.
Image width ca 3 cm.
Image: Jim Anderson
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Hero formosa A sea slug |
Hero formosa on sediment. Image width ca 3 cm. Image: Jim Anderson |
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Phylum | Mollusca |
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Class | Gastropoda |
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Habitat Information |
| Found on wrecks and muddy sand habitats with scattered shell and rocks. Has a considerable depth range. |
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Species description |
| A beautiful and delicate species of sea slug with a single row of bushy, branched appendages down each side of the body and across the front of the head. It can grow up to 38 mm in length and is pale pinkish-brown in colour with white spots scattered down the body and a white centre line along the back. The head bears a pair of greatly enlarged curved oral tentacles. |
| PMF archive information |
| Unavailable |
| Species name is listed in the PMF at the following locations: |
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>Breakwater Eddystone (inner) Channel Grounds Eddystone (outer) Channel Grounds Mewstone Dredging Ground Mewstone Echinoderm or Corner Ground Rame-Eddystone or Middle Grounds Stoke Point Grounds |