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Barnacle-Eating Dorid

onchidoris bilamellata

The Barnacle-Eating Dorid is a colorful sea slug that loves to munch on barnacles! It has a soft body covered in beautiful patterns, making it a fun find in tide pools.

Lebensraum: Barnacle-Eating Dorids live in tide pools and rocky coastal areas.

Aussehen

The Barnacle-Eating Dorid is a small, oval-shaped sea slug, typically cream to yellowish with dark speckles. Its back is covered in numerous small, wart-like bumps (tubercles). It has two feathery rhinophores and a plume of gills near its rear.

ReichAnimaliaStammMolluscaKlasseGastropodaOrdnungNudibranchiaFamilieOnchidorididaeGattungOnchidoris
Barnacle-Eating Dorid
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Barnacle-Eating Dorid

Kategorie

Invertebrate

Seltenheit

Common

Gefahr

0/5 · Keine bekannte Gefahr

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Interessante Fakten

Dorids are a type of nudibranch, which means 'naked gill' because their gills are exposed!

These sea slugs have a super-short lifespan, living only about one year!

These tiny sea slugs are hermaphrodites, meaning each one has both male and female parts!

They smell with their 'rhinophores', which are like two feathered antennae on their head!

Besondere Fähigkeiten

Fähigkeit

Barnacle Scraper

Barnacle-Eating Dorids can scrape barnacles off surfaces using their tough radula because it's like a tiny, specialized conveyer belt of teeth.

Fähigkeit

Warty Camouflage

Barnacle-Eating Dorids have a bumpy, wart-like body texture that helps them blend perfectly with rough, encrusted rocks.

Fähigkeit

Taste Deterrent

Barnacle-Eating Dorids can absorb chemicals from their diet, making them taste unpleasant to many hungry predators.

Maße und Details

Länge
1-4 cm
Gewicht
1-5 g
Lebenserwartung
0.5-1.5 Jahre

Ernährung und Fütterung

A tiny carnivore, it exclusively eats barnacles, scraping them off surfaces.

Hauptnahrung

  • barnacles

Nahrungssuche

  • Grazing

Ökologische Zusammenhänge

eats

Acorn Barnacle

Semibalanus balanoides

Scrapes these common intertidal barnacles from rocks.

eaten by

Green Crab

Carcinus maenas

Often preyed upon by this common shore crab.

eaten by

Dog Whelk

Nucella lapillus

Occasionally eaten by this predatory sea snail.

Merkmale

Auch bekannt als

Barnacle SlugDorid

Sammlungen

Sicherheit

Gefahr

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Häufig gestellte Fragen

Was ist der/die/das länge von Barnacle-Eating Dorid?

1-4 cm

Was ist der/die/das gewicht von Barnacle-Eating Dorid?

1-5 g

Was ist der/die/das lebenserwartung von Barnacle-Eating Dorid?

0.5-1.5 Jahre

Was frisst Barnacle-Eating Dorid?

A tiny carnivore, it exclusively eats barnacles, scraping them off surfaces.

Wo findet man Barnacle-Eating Dorid normalerweise?

Barnacle-Eating Dorids live in tide pools and rocky coastal areas.

Wie jagt Barnacle-Eating Dorid?

Grazing

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