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Spotted Lagoon Aeolid
Tenellia adspersa
Tenellia adspersa, common name the miniature aeolis, is a species of very small sea slug, an aeolid nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Trinchesiidae. It is the type species of the genus Tenellia.
In Britain this solitary species is referred to as the lagoon sea slug.
From the article Tenellia adspersa on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), quoted section by section
Description
The color of this nudibranch is generally pale yellow to light brown, with black speckles. The length is up to 8 mm.
Range & habitat
The indigenous distribution of Tenellia adspersa is the Northeastern Atlantic Ocean, Baltic Sea, the Mediterranean Sea, Black Sea and Caspian Sea. This species is fully protected in the United Kingdom under the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 since 1992. The species is thought to be introduced in:
Chesapeake Bay, Virginia; Massachusetts San Francisco Bay, Elkhorn Slough, and Long Beach, California; Coos Bay, Oregon.
Wikipedia: “Distribution”
What it does
Adults produce up to 100 eggs. Larvae are pelagic. They are sexually mature at 20 days old. Life span is less than one year usually.
Wikipedia: “Life cycle”
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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Every page naming Tenellia adspersa in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 50529.