Bosellia mimetica

Bosellia mimetica
Bosellia mimetica on Halimeda tuna. Locality: Mediterranean Sea. The length of the slug is about 1 cm.
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Family: Plakobranchidae
Genus: Bosellia
Species:
B. mimetica
Binomial name
Bosellia mimetica
Trinchese, 1890

Bosellia mimetica is a species of sea slug, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Plakobranchidae.[1] It is a very small sea slug growing to less than 1 centimetre (0.4 in) in length. It has a rounded, flattened body and is a mottled green, a colour that mimics that of the algae Halimeda tuna and Flabellia petiolata on which it lives and feeds.[2] Its range includes the Mediterranean Sea, the Iberian peninsula, the Caribbean Sea and the Atlantic coast of South America. The type locality is the island of Capri, in Italy.[3]

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference WoRMS was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ Bosellia mimetica Trinchese, 1890 The Sea Slug Forum. Retrieved 2012-01-22.
  3. ^ Jensen, Kathe R. (2004). "Biogeography of the Sacoglossa (Mollusca, Opisthobranchia)". Bonner zoologische Beiträge. 55: 255–281.