Aplysia juliana Quoy & Gaimard, 1832 is a animal in the Aplysiidae family, order Aplysiida, kingdom Animalia. Not known to be toxic.

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Aplysia juliana Quoy & Gaimard, 1832

Aplysia juliana Quoy & Gaimard, 1832

Aplysia juliana Quoy & Gaimard, 1832 is a circumtropical warm-sea sea hare that cannot produce purple ink.

Family
Genus
Aplysia
Order
Aplysiida
Class
Gastropoda

About Aplysia juliana Quoy & Gaimard, 1832

This species, a sea hare, lacks a purple gland, so it cannot produce ink, and only releases milky secretions. The posterior end of its foot functions as a sucker. Its color is most commonly brown with paler spots, but it can also come in a range of other shades, including solid all-black. The maximum recorded body length of this sea hare is 300 mm. This species has a cosmopolitan, circumtropical distribution across all warm seas. It lives in tidal pools and seagrass beds, and can be found at depths down to 20 metres.

Photo: (c) Marine Explorer (Dr John Turnbull), some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA) · cc-by-nc-sa

Taxonomy

Animalia Mollusca Gastropoda Aplysiida Aplysiidae Aplysia

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Sources: GBIF, iNaturalist, Wikipedia, NCBI Taxonomy · Disclaimer

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