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A Beautiful Sea Slug
The lettuce sea slug (Elysia crispata) has enlarged fleshy appendages that are folded over one another, with colors ranging from blue to green, with purple and red lining. The sea slug eats green algae, and some of the green algae gets shuttled off to make a home in those fleshy appendages (called parapodia).
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