Elephant seal - Wikipedia
Elephant seals or sea elephants are very large, oceangoing earless seals in the genus Mirounga. Both species, the northern elephant seal (M. angustirostris) and the southern elephant seal (M. leonina), were hunted to the brink of extinction for oil by the end of the 19th century, but their numbers have since recovered. They can weigh up to ...
Pterotracheoidea - Wikipedia
The Pterotracheoidea is, according to the Taxonomy of the Gastropoda (Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005), a taxonomic superfamily of sea snails or sea slugs, marine gastropod molluscs in the clade Littorinimorpha. They are commonly called heteropods or sea elephants.
Elephant Slug, Shield Slug, Ducksbill Limpet - Sea Slug Forum
2008年2月8日 · Scutus is not a slug but a marine snail with a white shield-like shell on its back. The shell is usually covered by flaps of the mantle, but they sometimes withdraw slightly to expose part of the shell as in the lower photo.
Elephant Slug, Shield Slug, Ducksbill Limpet ( Scutus sp.) - Sea Slug …
2008年2月8日 · Scutus is not a slug but a marine snail with a white shield-like shell on its back. The shell is usually covered by flaps of the mantle, but they sometimes withdraw slightly to expose part of the shell as in the lower photo.
Scutus antipodes - gbri.org.au
Scutus antipodes, commonly known as the elephant slug is a large, slug-like animal found in a range of marine habitats from rocky shores to coral reef crests. It is often found under rocks or in small crevices from low tide to 20 meters in depth.
Elephant Snail - The Australian Museum
The white shield-shaped shell of the Elephant Snail is often completely covered over by the black mantle. A member of the limpet family, this snail is easy to identify because of its large size and black colour.
Sea Elephants (Superfamily Pterotracheoidea) - iNaturalist
The Pterotracheoidea is, according to the Taxonomy of the Gastropoda (Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005), a taxonomic superfamily of sea snails or sea slugs, marine gastropod molluscs in the clade Littorinimorpha. They are commonly called heteropods or sea elephants.
Scutus antipodes - gbri.org.au
A pitch black mantle covers most of the exterior, giving it a slug-like appearance. However, the elephant slug possesses a tough white shell often partially visible beneath the mantle. The shell is laid down by the mantle, gradually adding layers from the apex (situated at one-third of the shell length from the posterior margin) to the ...
Sea slug - Wikipedia
Sea slug is a common name for some marine invertebrates with varying levels of resemblance to terrestrial slugs. Most creatures known as sea slugs are gastropods, i.e. they are sea snails (marine gastropod mollusks) that, over evolutionary time, have either entirely lost their shells or have seemingly lost their shells due to having a ...
Sea Elephants (Genus Pterotrachea) - iNaturalist
Pterotrachea is a taxonomic genus of medium-sized to large floating sea slugs, marine pelagic gastropod molluscs in the family Pterotracheidae, which is in the infraorder Littorinimorpha. As such they are quite closely related to such families as …