Costasiella kuroshimae
| Costasiella kuroshimae | |
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| Costasiella cf. kuroshimae on Avrainvillea erecta. Locality: Lizard Island, Great Barrier Reef. The length of the slug is about 1 cm. | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
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clade Heterobranchia informal group Opisthobranchia |
| Superfamily: | Limapontioidea |
| Family: | Costasiellidae |
| Genus: | Costasiella |
| Species: | C. kuroshimae |
| Binomial name | |
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Costasiella kuroshimae Ichikawa, 1993 |
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informal group Opisthobranchia
clade Sacoglossa
clade Plakobranchacea
Costasiella kuroshimae is a species of sacoglossan sea slug, a shell-less marine opisthobranch gastropod mollusk in the family Costasiellidae.
It has the ability to incorporate chloroplasts from the algae it feeds on into its body and use them to do photosynthesis (see kleptoplasty).
The type locality is Kuroshima, Taketomi, Okinawa, Ryukyu Islands.
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