Flabellina pedata

Flabellina pedata

Referred Flabellina pedata, also known as Violet Fadenschnecke (but are more types in this popular scientific name given ) is a marine slug, which is native to the Mediterranean. It belongs in the subordination of the Nudibranch ( Nudibranchia ), also known as " water slugs " or " butterflies of the ocean ".

Description

The slim body of the animal is red-violet. It has numerous arranged in paired vertebrae dorsal appendages with white tips that make the worm look shaggy. There are also rhinophores, which are white at the top and two on the surface slightly wrinkled head sensor and oral tentacles. Individuals of this species can grow up to 4 inches tall.

Occurrence

The very striking marine nudibranch occur in the Mediterranean, the Atlantic, the English Channel and the North Sea (in the vicinity of the island of Helgoland) ago. She lives on various algae and polyps sticks in tidal pools of the above oceans and seas page.

Nutrition

The Flabellina pedata has highly specialized and only eats a few colony-forming polyps, the adult snails prefer Eudendrium ramosum from the group of Anthomedusen, younger specimens graze smaller polyps.