Aplysia vaccaria
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Aplysia vaccaria, also known as the black sea hare and California black sea hare, is a species of extremely large sea slug, a marine, opisthobranch, gastropod mollusk in the family Aplysiidae.
Aplysia vaccaria Radès sea
Aplysia vaccaria can be safely handled by humans
California sea hare
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The California sea hare is a species of sea slug in the sea hare family, Aplysiidae.
Aplysia vaccaria
…to be very large; the longest recorded specimen measured 99 cm (39 in) when crawling (thus fully extended), and weighed nearly 14 kg (31 lb). Unlike Aplysia californica, the body of this species is relatively firm, and the parapodia are joined behind the siphon. Unlike many other members of the same family and genus…
Aplysia californica
Out of water at low tide near Morro Bay
Juvenile on display at Birch Aquarium in San Diego, California
A. californica rhinophore