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Oxynoe antillarum Antilles Sap-sucking Slug


Profilbild Urheber Pauline Walsh Jacobson, USA

Sea Slug, Antilles Oxynoe, Oxynoe antillarium (bhb 20 P8053075a sm).2020


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lexID:
7521 
AphiaID:
420566 
Scientific:
Oxynoe antillarum 
German:
Antillen Saftsauger 
English:
Antilles Sap-sucking Slug 
Category:
 
Family tree:
Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Gastropoda (Class) > Sacoglossa (Order) > Oxynoidae (Family) > Oxynoe (Genus) > antillarum (Species) 
Initial determination:
Mörch, 1863 
Occurrence:
Belize, Brazil, Cuba, Florida, Gulf of Mexico, Jamaica, Panama, the Caribbean, Venezuela, West-Atlantic Ocean 
Size:
1.18" - 1.77" (3cm - 4.5cm) 
Temperature:
71.6 °F - 80.6 °F (22°C - 27°C) 
Food:
Algae (Algivore), Food specialist 
Difficulty:
There are no reports available yet that this animal has already been kept in captivity successfully 
Offspring:
None 
Toxicity:
Toxic hazard unknown 
CITES:
Not evaluated 
Red List:
Not evaluated (NE) 
Related species at
Catalog of Life
:
 
More related species
in this lexicon
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Author:
Publisher:
Meerwasser-Lexikon.de
Created:
Last edit:
2014-09-13 17:22:00 

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Oxynoe antillarum Mörch, 1863

Oxynoe antillarum have a glossy, inflated shell in middle of the body.The body colour is green scattered with white to greyish spots.Along each side of the head from the base of each rhinophores is a mottled white band.

Oxynoe antillarum feeds on Caulerpa racemosa.

Very similar is Oxynoe azuropunctata.

External links

  1. Sea Slug Forum (en). Abgerufen am 07.08.2020.
  2. Wikipedia (de). Abgerufen am 07.08.2020.
  3. World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) (en). Abgerufen am 07.08.2020.

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