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If you were asked to describe what a sea slug is, you might be tempted to go with the straightforward response: it’s a slug that lives in the sea. And you know, you wouldn’t be wrong.

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SOURCES:
myfwc.com/research/saltwater/mollusc/other-molluscs/sea-slugs
seaslugforum.net/nonslug.htm
chesapeakebay.net/discover/field-guide/entry/sea-slugs
https://ocean.si.edu/ocean-life/invertebrates/collage-nudibranch-colors
hakaimagazine.com/videos-visuals/nudibranchs-armed-and-fabulous
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6488191
journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0215063
https://www.molluscs.at/gastropoda/index.html?/gastropoda/sea/sacoglossa.html
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2790442
seaslugforum.net/find/rhinonud
https://www.aup.edu/profile/mcaballergutierrez
opistobranquis.info/en/guia/sacoglossa/plakobranchoidea/ercolania-viridis
biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/article/view/zootaxa.2676.1.1
http://file.iflora.cn/fastdfs/group1/M00/64/6E/wKhnoV2R-S2AWVrJAQqlbPEdVBw976.pdf.