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Thuridilla virgata sap-sucking slug

Thuridilla virgata wird umgangssprachlich oft als Saftsauger bezeichnet.

Profilbild Urheber Georgina Jones (CC-BY-SA), Cape Town

Thuridilla virgata,stringer two mile Western Shore of Lake Shazibe, Sodwana, 3974, South Africa 2025 (CC-BY-SA)


Courtesy of the author Georgina Jones (CC-BY-SA), Cape Town . Please visit www.inaturalist.org for more information.

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lexID:
11813 
AphiaID:
494508 
Scientific:
Thuridilla virgata 
German:
Saftsauger 
English:
Sap-sucking Slug 
Category:
Sacoglossa 
Family tree:
Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Gastropoda (Class) > Sacoglossa (Order) > Plakobranchidae (Family) > Thuridilla (Genus) > virgata (Species) 
Initial determination:
(Bergh, ), 1888 
Occurrence:
Indian Ocean, Kenya, Madagascar, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mayotte, Réunion , South-Africa, Tansania 
Marine Zone:
Subtidal, sublittoral, infralittoral, deep zone of the oceans from the lower limit of the intertidal zone (intertidal) to the shelf edge at about 200 m water depth. neritic. 
Sea depth:
0 - 10 Meter 
Habitats:
Seawater, Sea water 
Size:
0" - 0.79" (0,7cm - 2,5cm) 
Temperature:
°F - 82.4 °F (°C - 28°C) 
Food:
Algae (Algivore), Food specialist 
Difficulty:
Not suitable for aquarium keeping 
Offspring:
None 
Toxicity:
Toxic hazard unknown 
CITES:
Not evaluated 
Red List:
Not evaluated (NE) 
Related species at
Catalog of Life:
 
More related species
in this lexicon:
 
Author:
Publisher:
Meerwasser-Lexikon.de
Created:
Last edit:
2024-07-02 19:40:02 

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Thuridilla virgata (Bergh, 1888)

The body is a pale bluish white with a series of broad black longitudinal bands, of irregular width and length, on the parapodia.

feeds on algae

External links

  1. Sea Slug Forum (en). Abgerufen am 07.08.2020.
  2. seaslugs.free.fr (en). Abgerufen am 07.08.2020.
  3. seaslugs.free.fr - Variability in Thuridilla virgata (en). Abgerufen am 02.07.2024.

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Thuridilla virgata,stringer two mile Western Shore of Lake Shazibe, Sodwana, 3974, South Africa 2025 (CC-BY-SA)
Thuridilla virgata, 12mm in length,Tanzania 2024
Thuridilla virgata
Thuridilla virgata, Madagascar 2019

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