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Come one, come all! See the amazing, the astonishing, half-animal, half-plant! Journey to Tampa Bay, Florida, where scientist Skip Pierce and one of his students first made a remarkable discovery twenty years ago. Meet Elysia chlorotica, a bright green, solar-powered, algae-slurping sea slug that’s still turning our understanding of the classification of life upside down.
Podcast transcript read moreDuration: 5:18Published: Mon, 27 Jun 2011 18:11:25 +0000
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Radula of Elysia viridis Mont.... Type (a).
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Kranji, North West, Singapore
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Jakimirya, Maharashtra, India
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Singapore, Central Singapore, Singapore
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Ratnagiri, Maharashtra, India
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El Granada, California, United States
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Eysia clarki veligers hatched from egg mass. Adults collected from Lake Surprise, Florida.
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Kranji, North West, Singapore
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Outram, Central Singapore, Singapore
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El Granada, California, United States
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Eysia clarki crawling shelled larva hatched from egg mass (on right). It is in the process of metamorphosis and will lose its shell. Empty shell from post metamorphic juvenile slug on left. Adults collected from Lake Surprise, Florida.
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Singapore, Central Singapore, Singapore
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Outram, Central Singapore, Singapore
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Elysia hedgpethi, about 5 cm long, in a high tidepool at Beach #4 near Kalaloch, WA (Photo by: Brooke Reiswig, July 2006)
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Bailarina mexicana, Elysia diomedeaMar de Cortés
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All Biocode files are based on field identifications to the best of the researcher’s ability at the time.
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All Biocode files are based on field identifications to the best of the researcher’s ability at the time.
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All Biocode files are based on field identifications to the best of the researcher’s ability at the time.
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All Biocode files are based on field identifications to the best of the researcher’s ability at the time.
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All Biocode files are based on field identifications to the best of the researcher’s ability at the time.