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Stiliger
Sign in to saveStiliger is a genus of small and minute sacoglossan or sap-sucking sea slugs. They are marine gastropod mollusks in the family Limapontiidae.
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 121
- With media
- 12
- Family
- Limapontiidae
- Collections
- CAS
- Recorded in
- United States, Philippines, Japan, Bahamas, South Africa
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- Parent taxon
- Limapontiidae
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- Stiliger berghi.jpg
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Stiliger is a genus of small and minute sacoglossan or sap-sucking sea slugs. They are marine gastropod mollusks in the family Limapontiidae.
They somewhat resemble nudibranchs, but are not closely related to them. They are a rich green in color, caused by the green algae they eat.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Stiliger” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.