#Sacoglossan

Digital black and white illustration of four different sea slugs. The sea slugs pictured are: the blue dragon sea slug, glaucus atlanticus. The leaf sheep sea slug, costasiella kuroshimae. The sea bunny, jorunna parva. And chromodoris williani.

This was a design I made for a silkscreen printing class I'm taking. I decided to put it up on INPRNT cause I'm really happy with this particular design :)

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Tags: #inprnt #artprint #seaslugs #nudibranch #sacoglossan #seabunny #leafsheep #artsky #design

Plush leaf sheep sea slug.

Merry #Squidmas. Kiddo got his dad a plushie #sacoglossan. What a clever child. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Costasi...

A composite photo of two specimens of the sea slug Elysia chlorotica. The slug is green in color and looks almost like a leaf with small rhinophores on the head. The photo on the left, labeled A, is a lighter green color and is the specimen from Tampa Bay. The one on the right labeled B, is from Massachusetts, and is a darker color green. There is a 1cm scale bar on the image.

Very excited to share the discovery of a new population of the sacoglossan sea slug Elysia chlorotica in Tampa Bay! The new paper is out online now!
#seaslug #sacoglossan #invertebrate #academicsky

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A host organelle integrates stolen chloroplasts for animal photosynthesis Sea slugs steal foreign chloroplasts and store them in specialized organelles that facilitate photosynthesis and eventual digestion to mediate starvation resistance.

📜 A host organelle integrates stolen chloroplasts for animal photosynthesis

🧑‍🔬 Corey A.H. Allard, Amy S.Y. Lee, @nbellono.bsky.social, et al.

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#️⃣ #PlantScience #Kleptosomes #Sacoglossan #SeaSlug #Photosynthesis

Photosynthetic #sacoglossan sea slugs lose state transitions due to structural changes of their kleptoplasts, whereas Bryopsidales #algae show an evolutionary loss of state transitions, highlighting the diverse light-use strategies of green algae. www.nature.com/articles/s42... @vesahavu.bsky.social

A 3mm long Ercolania fuscata crawls on a bright green piece of bubble algae. The slug is dark witch a white patch near its head and rhinophores.

A 3mm long Ercolania fuscata sacoglossan slug crawls on green bubble algea over a white background. Its eye is visible on a white patch near its head.

A 3 mm Ercolania fuscata traverses a blade of Stalked Grape Algae (Caulerpa lamourouxii) in its quest to find more chloroplasts to slurp. These little #sacoglossan slugs come to visit us in the tropical western Atlantic for a short time in late summer and fall. #nudivember #seaslug #marinelife 🦑