sea slug

n.1. Any of various highly colorful marine gastropods of the suborder Nudibranchia, lacking a shell and gills but having fringelike projections that serve as respiratory organs. Also called nudibranch.2. Any of various other marine gastropods that lack a shell or have a reduced shell.

sea slug

n (Animals) any of various shell-less marine gastropod molluscs, esp those of the order Nudibranchia. See nudibranch

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n. a nudibranch. [1770–80]

sea slug

Any of various colorful ocean mollusks that lack a shell and gills but have fringe-like projections that serve as respiratory organs. Also called nudibranch.

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Noun

sea slug - any of various marine gastropods of the suborder Nudibranchia having a shell-less and often beautifully colored bodynudibranchgastropod, univalve - a class of mollusks typically having a one-piece coiled shell and flattened muscular foot with a head bearing stalked eyesNudibranchia, order Nudibranchia - comprising numerous marine gastropod mollusks lacking a shell in the adult state and usually having a body like a slugHermissenda crassicornis - a kind of sea slug

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sea slug

sea slug,

name for a marine gastropodgastropod,
member of the class Gastropoda, the largest and most successful class of mollusks (phylum Mollusca), containing over 35,000 living species and 15,000 fossil forms.
..... Click the link for more information. mollusk that lacks a shell as an adult and is usually brightly colored. Sea slugs, or nudibranchs, are distributed throughout the world, with the greatest numbers and the largest kinds found in tropical waters. They creep along the bottom or cling to submerged vegetation, usually in water just below the low tide line. Members of a few species swim on the surface in open ocean. Most sea slugs are under 1 in. (2.5 cm) long, although the largest, found in the Great Barrier Reef of Australia, reaches 12 in. (30 cm). Regarded by many people as the most beautiful of marine animals, sea slugs display a great array of solid colors and patterns. Many have feathery structures (ceratia) on the back, often in a contrasting color. Most sea slugs have two pairs of tentacles on the head, used for tactile and chemosensory reception, with a small eye at the base of each tentacle. Sea slugs graze on small sessile animals such as coelenterates, sponges, and bryozoans. Certain sea slugs that feed on corals and sea anemones ingest the stinging cells of their prey without discharging them; these then pass from the slug's digestive tract to the ceratia, where they are used by the slug for its own defense. Sea slugs are classified in the phylum MolluscaMollusca
, taxonomic name for the one of the largest phyla of invertebrate animals (Arthropoda is the largest) comprising more than 50,000 living mollusk species and about 35,000 fossil species dating back to the Cambrian period.
..... Click the link for more information. , class Gastropoda, subclass Opisthobranchia, order Nudibranchiata.

sea slug

[′sē ‚sləg] (invertebrate zoology) The common name for the naked gastropods composing the suborder Nudibranchia.

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Synonyms for sea slug

noun any of various marine gastropods of the suborder Nudibranchia having a shell-less and often beautifully colored body

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