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Sacoproteus
Sacoproteus is a genus of sea slugs in the Limapontiidae family, described in 2018. It contains five species, of which four were newly described when the genus was erected, and one (Sacoproteus smaragdinus) was reassigned from its previous classification of Stiliger smaragdinus as the type species of the new genus. Most of the species are mimetic of toxic "sea-grape" algae in the genus Caulerpa.
5 branches of this genus, most-observed first
Sacoproteus smaragdinus
speciesSacoproteus smaragdinus
Sacoproteus yhiae
speciesSacoproteus yhiae
Sacoproteus nishae
speciesSacoproteus nishae
Sacoproteus browni
speciesSacoproteus browni
Sacoproteus thomasleei
speciesSacoproteus thomasleei
Where it lives
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 787076.