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Order

Umbrella slugs & reduced internal shell

Umbraculida

Species in the gallery
1
Superfamilies
1

Description

Umbraculida are the umbrella slugs: heterobranchs with a flat, limpet-like external shell sitting on top of a bulky body. The group includes Umbraculum and Tylodina (Tylodinidae), which feeds on yellow Aplysina sponges and takes on their colour.

Identification

A shallow, cap-like external shell covering the back (like a limpet), with the body and foot projecting around it; rolled rhinophores and a gill on the right side under the shell.

Superfamilies

1 species

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Umbraculida