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Lettuce Sea Slug
Sep14, 2017. Dive site The Sampler, in Klein Bonaire.
Thanks to an overprotective dive guide I was not able to get a better pic of this beauty but you can see the slug is iridescent blue. These beautiful slugs are usually brilliantly coloured and this in itself can act as a deterrent against predators. Some sea slugs secrete acid from stinging cells in their tentacles while others secrete acid from cells in their mantle.
Nudibranchs are slow moving, can swim or be propelled along either by muscular contraction or by millions of tiny hairs on the bottom of a fleshy 'foot', they have a voracious appetite and feed with a rasp like tongue.
Nudibranch lay their eggs in a ribbon effect on the sand, in different colours depending on species.
http://www.whatsthatfish.com/fish/lettuce-sea-slug/1581
''Elysia crispata'', common name the lettuce sea slug, is a large and colorful species of sea slug, a marine gastropod mollusk. The lettuce slug resembles a nudibranch, but it is not closely related to that clade of gastropods; it is classified as a sacoglossan.
