Aplysia juliana
| Walking sea hare | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura clade Euopisthobranchia clade Aplysiomorpha |
| Superfamily: | Aplysioidea |
| Family: | Aplysiidae |
| Genus: | Aplysia |
| Species: | A. juliana |
| Binomial name | |
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Aplysia juliana (Quoy & Gaimard, 1832) |
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| Synonyms | |
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Aplysia brunnea Hutton, 1874 |
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Aplysia brunnea Hutton, 1874
Aplysia juliana, common name the walking sea hare, is a species of sea slug, more specifically a sea hare, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Aplysiidae, the sea hares.
Distribution of this species is cosmopolitan, circumtropical in all warm seas.
This sea hare has no purple gland and therefore cannot produce ink, just milky secretions. The posterior end of the foot in this species can act as a sucker.
The color of this sea hare is very often brown with paler spots, but it can be various other shades including plain black all over.
The maximum recorded length is 300 mm.
Minimum recorded depth is 0 m. Maximum recorded depth is 0 m.
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