Information on Aplysia californica
April 20, 2000
From: Luiza Zonzini
Hi,
I'm Luiza Zonzini, a Brazilian student, and my school is developing a project called INVERTBAND2000 and i'm supposed to work on Aplysia californica. I'm almost finishing my work but I couldn't find an objective information about habitat, habits and I couldn't quite understand how do they eat. I would be very glad if you could answer me before April 21st.
Luiza
lucarvalh@hotmail.com
Zonzini, L., 2000 (Apr 20) Information on Aplysia californica. [Message in] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney. Available from http://www.seaslugforum.net/find/2296Dear Luiza,
I am surprised the Aplysia you are investigating is Aplysia californica. It is from the west coast of North America. You should be looking at your own Aplysia brasiliana.
There is a lot of information on Sea Hares in the Forum. Have a look at the What is a Sea Hare? Page for information. At the top of each page you will find a picture and background information. Make sure to look further down the page for messages and comments which also contain more information. There is also a page on Aplysia californica.
Have a look at the message which has a picture of Aplysia californica's mouth and talks about feeding. Also have a look at my answer to another message asking about what Aplysia californica ate.
There is also a description of the gut of another Sea Hare, Bursatella, which is very similar to that of Aplysia. If you want to compare feeding in Sea Hares (which feed on plants) with feeding in a dorid sea slug which feeds on animals have a look at the page on feeding organs in dorid nudibranchs.
I am not sure if you use the internet a lot. In case you don't know, if you click on the coloured and underlined words in this message, you will go to those pages. To get back to this message just click on your BACK button. I hope this will be of help.
Good luck with your INVERTBAND2000 project.
Best wishes,
Bill Rudman.
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