Genus Aplysia: A member of Seahares Family Aplysiidae
Aplysia is a genus of medium-sized to extremely large sea slugs, specifically sea hares, which are one clade of large sea slugs, marine gastropod mollusks. These benthic* herbivorous creatures can become rather large compared with most other mollusks. Wikipedia
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*The benthic zone is the ecological region at the lowest level of a body of water such as an ocean, lake, or stream, including the sediment surface
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