Key Identification Features
- These features make the slug resemble curly lettuce varieties like lollo rosso.
- This species has a distinctive egg mass: white eggs with orange yolks are positioned alongside their capsules.
- It has tall, thin parapodia that feature a black band along the edge, with a submarginal orange band inside this black band.
- Elysia marginata has two distinct forms: a sedentary form that can reach up to 76 millimetres, or 3.
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