Dwarf Sea Hare

The location of its rhinophores organ used to smell and its oral tentacles make it look a bit like a rabbit hence its common name. There are wing like flaps extending from the body which is brown to maroon or olive green in colour and may be covered with clusters of white spots. The dwarf sea hare is round bodied and smooth skinned with a slender head bearing extensions which resemble rabbit ears.

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This specimen found in a tidal pool on the beach in south africa is about 18cm 7 inches in length.

Dwarf sea hare. The dwarf sea hare is the most common of the locally occuring sea hares and can be found on most reefs being abundant at long beach where it inhabits mostly codium beds. This small sea hare have a world wide distribution in tropical to warm temperate waters. If it becomes startled it may release a purple dye to repel attacking fish.

The body of the sea hare is a combination of speckles and patterns. Users of the collections are expected to abide by all copyright laws. The dolabella sea hare dolabella auricularia also known as the wedge sea hare is one of the best algae eaters in the home aquarium.

Shaggy sea hare laying eggs phil parr sent surg a question regarding a nudibranch egg string he found at long beach. This species is an algae grazer. It looked very similar to the egg string of the dwarf sea hare aplysia parvula which however normally is yellow to orange it was thus thought that either it was a paler version of the eggs or possibly a similar species.

95 original blaschka species name. Dwarf sea hare aplysia parvula family aplysiidae although called a dwarf or pygmy various sites list it as growing to about 5cm which is incorrect. Dwarf sea hare collection.

Cornell collection of blaschka invertebrate models photographer. Aplysia parvula is white brown or green in colour. Compared to it the dwarf sea hare aplysia parvula with a size of up to 6 cm does look like a dwarf.

There are a few colour variations the more common ones being a red and an olive green but other shades may also appear. The dolabella sea hare can clean an entire 125 gallon reef tank of all hair algae in about two weeks they are quite the efficient janitors. The maximum recorded length for this animal is 60 mm.

The aplysiomorpha group like it is called with its current scientific name also is referred to as broad foot snails in german.