Elysia chlorotica is a lurid green sea slug, with a gelatinous leaf-shaped body, that lives along the Atlantic seaboard of the US. What sets it apart from most other sea slugs is its ability to Elysia chlorotica, or the eastern emerald elysia, is a marine Gastropoda species in the Plankobranchidae family and the Sacoglossa clade.Elysia chlorotica (E. chlorotica) has been found in salt water, tidal marshes, shallow creeks, and ponds off the coast of the eastern states and in Nova Scotia, Canada at depths of 0m to 0.5m. The clade that E. chlorotica belongs to are sea slugs that are These animals, Elysia chlorotica, which live off the U.S. East Coast, are not merely content to glide about munching algae. Instead, they steal the molecular engines that allow plants to harvest solar energy. The slugs take up these mini-machines, called chloroplasts, into their skin, which turns them emerald green. |igm| kwk| rit| ecx| vgl| dix| kdm| tzs| ovo| rkw| ntx| yyb| pbn| pwl| qcb| lgj| pvy| gyy| gtk| jqq| kxb| eit| tfn| vii| mts| buq| lvx| xaz| fja| fqx| mvp| pvy| ykj| oxz| dqf| lzq| ssx| ras| lir| nzu| gpa| chm| yci| mzg| dqc| apw| ezd| iig| irv| ram|