E. zuleicae, Box of Slugs 2, 2/8/15

Description: Small green slug (<2 cm), with rolled rhinophores and an extension on the tail.

Distribution: Western Atlantic and Caribbean (Krug, 2009)

Food plants: Udotea, Halimeda incrassata, Bryopsis, Polyphysa (Christa et al., 2015)

Kleptoplasty: non-functional

Development: Lecithotrophic and planktotrophic (Krug, 2009)

Scientific Literature:

Christa, G., Händeler, K., Kück, P., Vleugels, M., Franken, J., Karmeinski, D., Wägele, H. (2014) Phylogenetic evidence for multiple independent origins of functional kleptoplasty in Sacoglossa (Heterobranchia, Gastropoda). Organisms Diversity and Evolution, 15 (1), pp. 23-36 [K] [F] [Cl] [Pp] [Pt] [Zu]

Camacho-García Y., Pola M., Carmona L., Padula V., Villani G. and Cervera L. (2014) Diversity and distribution of the heterobranch sea slug fauna on the Caribbean of Costa Rica. Cahiers de Biologie Marine 55, 109–127 [NH] [Ev] [Su] [[Tu] Zu] 

Vendetti, J.E., Trowbridge, C.D., Krug, P.J. (2012) Poecilogony and population genetic structure in Elysia pusilla (Heterobranchia: Sacoglossa), and reproductive data for five sacoglossans that express dimorphisms in larval development Integrative and Comparative Biology, 52 (1), pp. 138-150. PDF [NH] [Pu] [Zu] [Ch]

Händeler, K., Grzymbowski, Y.P., Krug, P.J., Wägele, H. (2009) Functional chloroplasts in metazoan cells – A unique evolutionary strategy in animal life. Frontiers in Zoology, 6 (1), art. no. 28. PDF [F] [K] [R]

Krug, P.J. (2009) Not My “Type”: Larval dispersal dimorphisms and bet-hedging in opisthobranch life histories. Biological Bulletin, 216 (3), pp. 355-372. PDF [NH] [Co] [Cr] [Pp] [Pr] [Su] [Tu] [Zu]