Plakobranchidae

Elysia diomedea (Bergh, 1894)

Elysia diomedea is a colorful sacoglossan sea slug found in the eastern Pacific Ocean off Central America.

Elysia pusilla (Bergh, 1871)

Elysia pusilla is a cryptic sea slug that feeds on Halimeda taenicola, and may be capable of rare poecilogony reproduction.

Elysia ornata (Swainson, 1840)

Elysia ornata is a tropical, algae-eating marine species found in the Pacific and Caribbean at 0–18 m depth.

Elysia tomentosa K.R.Jensen, 1997

Elysia tomentosa is a shell-less species of marine sacoglossan sea slug from the family Plakobranchidae, with type locality at Abrolhos Islands.

Elysia crispata Mörch, 1863

Elysia crispata, the lettuce slug, is a variably colored sacoglossan sea slug found in shallow clear western Atlantic tropical waters.

Elysia rufescens (Pease, 1871)

Elysia rufescens is a Pacific-occurring species of sea slug with distinct patterning and coloration, growing to around 6 cm long.

Elysia subornata A.E.Verrill, 1901

Elysia subornata is a sacoglossan sea slug proposed for use as biocontrol against invasive Caulerpa taxifolia.

Elysia maoria Powell, 1937

Elysia maoria is a small shell-less sacoglossan sea slug from New Zealand that feeds on algae, with little known of its biology.

Elysia viridis (Montagu, 1804)

Elysia viridis is a sacoglossan sea slug found in the northeastern Atlantic and Mediterranean that feeds on Codium algae and retains stolen chloroplasts.

Elysia timida (Risso, 1818)

Elysia timida is a small hermaphroditic sacoglossan sea slug found in the Mediterranean and Atlantic waters.

Elysia margaritae Fez, 1962

Elysia margaritae Fez, 1962 is a small sea slug with specific patterned coloration and a distinctive egg structure.

Elysia marginata (Pease, 1871)

Elysia marginata is a sacoglossan sea slug found in the Indo-Pacific that can fully autotomize its head.

Plakobranchus ocellatus van Hasselt, 1824

Plakobranchus ocellatus is an Indo-Pacific sea slug that is now recognized as a species complex of at least four distinct clades.

Thuridilla lineolata (Bergh, 1905)

Thuridilla lineolata is a colorful sea slug species that lives in tropical West Pacific coral reef habitats.

Thuridilla gracilis (Risbec, 1928)

Thuridilla gracilis is a small sea slug with distinct dark patterning found in shallow Indo-West-Pacific coral reef habitats.

Thuridilla hopei (Vérany, 1853)

Thuridilla hopei is a shell-less marine sacoglossan sea slug in the family Plakobranchidae found in the Mediterranean region.

Thuridilla carlsoni Gosliner, 1995

Thuridilla carlsoni is a shell-less marine sacoglossan sea slug in the family Plakobranchidae that occurs in the Pacific Ocean.

Thuridilla vataae (Risbec, 1928)

Thuridilla vataae is a small tropical Indo-Pacific sea slug that engages in Batesian mimicry of toxic nudibranchs.

Bosellia mimetica Trinchese, 1891

Bosellia mimetica is a small green sea slug that mimics its host algae for camouflage, found in the Mediterranean, Atlantic, and Caribbean regions.