Sea Slugs
Description:
Come one, come all! See the amazing, the astonishing, half-animal, half-plant! Journey to Tampa Bay, Florida, where scientist Skip Pierce and one of his students first made a remarkable discovery twenty years ago. Meet Elysia chlorotica, a bright green, solar-powered, algae-slurping sea slug that’s still turning our understanding of the classification of life upside down.
Duration: 5:18
Published: Mon, 27 Jun 2011 18:11:25 +0000
Included On The Following Pages:
- Life (creatures)
- Cellular (cellular organisms)
- Eukaryota (eukaryotes)
- Opisthokonta (opisthokonts)
- Metazoa (Animal)
- Bilateria
- Protostomia (protostomes)
- Spiralia (spiralians)
- Mollusca (molluscs)
- Gastropoda (snails)
- Plakobranchoidea
- Plakobranchidae
- Elysia
- unclassified Gastropoda
- Elysia chlorotica (eastern emerald elysia)
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- Encyclopedia of Life
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- Encyclopedia of Life
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- Atlantic Public Media
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