RichardS
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I've spent a lot of time in the Adriatic over the last 7 years but today, walking from the boat to the shower block, I saw my first Aplysia Fasciata.
http://www.seaslugforum.net/showall/aplyfasc
Unfortunately I did not have my camera with me and by the time I returned with it it had swum away.
I don't know whether these are rare or I have just been unlucky not to see one before. What a strange creature. It was swimming with parts of its body out of the water. First one set of horns (maybe eyes on stalks?) and then another. Unlike a land slug, it seemed to have two pairs of horns at the front and another set at the back. It kept turning through 360 degrees, not by rolling sideways but like a wheel with its head coming up out of the water and then running its head along its back so at some point it was upside down. Presumably it has no spine as it flexed like jelly.
I guess it was about 7 or 8 inches long and its wings about 3 or 4 inches either side.
It looked like it was designed by the same committee that came up with the camel. A bit weird!
Richard
http://www.seaslugforum.net/showall/aplyfasc
Unfortunately I did not have my camera with me and by the time I returned with it it had swum away.
I don't know whether these are rare or I have just been unlucky not to see one before. What a strange creature. It was swimming with parts of its body out of the water. First one set of horns (maybe eyes on stalks?) and then another. Unlike a land slug, it seemed to have two pairs of horns at the front and another set at the back. It kept turning through 360 degrees, not by rolling sideways but like a wheel with its head coming up out of the water and then running its head along its back so at some point it was upside down. Presumably it has no spine as it flexed like jelly.
I guess it was about 7 or 8 inches long and its wings about 3 or 4 inches either side.
It looked like it was designed by the same committee that came up with the camel. A bit weird!
Richard
