Thecacera pennigera: Winged Thecacera
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The non-native winged thecaria, Diagnostic physical features of , is a small, attractive sea slug that is typically translucent white with small orange, yellow and black to blue-black spots or flecks. It has a blunt and broadened head with two lateral extensions and paired rhinophores (olfactory organs) located inside flared, incomplete rhinophore sheaths. The anterior of the body is broad and it tapers posteriorly to a long, slender foot. A u-shaped tuft of gill is located dorsally just forward from a pair of finger-like white-tipped, postbranchial processes. These processes have coloration similar to the rest of the body (NIMPIS 2002). Picton and Morrow (1994) report that the glandular postbranchial processes are defensive in function.
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| Page title: | Thecacera pennigera |
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| IP-address: | 160.111.252.229 |
WHOIS Info
| NS | Name Servers: SI-NAMES1.SI.EDU 160.111.252.5 SI-NAMES2.SI.EDU 160.111.252.6 |
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| Date | activated: 19-Jun-1992 last updated: 29-May-2013 expires: 31-Jul-2014 |