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Jorunna parva
Jorunna parva is a species of sea slug, a dorid nudibranch, a shell-less marine gastropod mollusc in the family Discodorididae. The species was first described by Kikutaro Baba. The resemblance of Jorunna parva's rhinophores to bunny ears and its other features facilitated a surge in popularity on Twitter throughout Japan in 2015. The rhinophores are classified as sensory organs for the act of chemoreception. Sea slugs eat sponges, which contain toxins. Those toxins are used for...
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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 548348.