| California sea hare | |
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| Releasing ink after being disturbed | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Clade: | Euopisthobranchia |
| Clade: | Anaspidea |
| Superfamily: | Aplysioidea |
| Family: | Aplysiidae |
| Genus: | Aplysia |
| Species: | A. californica
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| Binomial name | |
| Aplysia californica (James Graham Cooper, 1863)
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| Occurrence is sparse in the northern portion of this range[1] | |
| Synonyms[2] | |
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Aplysia nettiae Winkler, 1959 | |
The California sea hare (Aplysia californica) is a species of sea slug in the sea hare family, Aplysiidae.[2] It is found in the Pacific Ocean, off the coast of California in the United States and northwestern Mexico.
- ^ Robert Hugh Morris; Eugene Clinton Haderlie (1980). Intertidal Invertebrates of California. Stanford University Press. p. 348. ISBN 978-0-8047-1045-9. Retrieved 26 July 2013.
- ^ a b Rosenberg, G.; Bouchet, P. (2011). Aplysia californica J. G. Cooper, 1863. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=240765 on 2012-03-31