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Lined Seahare
Stylocheilus striatus
Stylocheilus striatus is a species of sea hare found in the Indo-pacific region living from the intertidal zone to a depth of 30 metres. Common names include lined sea hare, blue ring sea hare and furry sea hare. Mature animals can reach sizes of up to 65 mm in length and are brown in colour with blue spots. Their diet mainly consists of blue algae. They play an important role in controlling toxic blooms of the cyanobacterium Lyngbya majuscula.
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Description
This small sea hare has a cigar-shaped body and can reach a length of 6 to 7 cm (2.4 to 2.8 in). There is no shell, and the gills can be seen through the translucent brownish body, between the parapodia. The body has fine brown or green, longitudinal striations and spots, and there is a bluish central area. The eyes are at the base of the rhinophores and the head bears two pairs of tentacles. The body is covered with numerous simple or branched papillae.
Range & habitat
Stylocheilus striatus has historically been considered to have a pantropical distribution, but morphological studies and molecular analysis have shown it to be a species complex consisting of three allopatric species; S. striatus is retained for the populations in the Indo-Pacific region, S. rickettsi is used for those in the eastern Pacific region, and S. polyomma for those in the western Atlantic region.
Wikipedia: “Distribution”
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