Barnacle-Eating Dorid
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.
生息地: Barnacle-Eating Dorids live in tide pools and rocky coastal areas.
外見
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.
界Animalia門Mollusca綱Gastropoda目Nudibranchia科Onchidorididae属Onchidoris
カテゴリ
Invertebrateレア度
Common
危険度
0/5 · 危険なし
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おもしろい事実
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!
特殊能力
能力
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.
能力
Warty Camouflage
Barnacle-Eating Dorids have a bumpy, wart-like body texture that helps them blend perfectly with rough, encrusted rocks.
能力
Taste Deterrent
Barnacle-Eating Dorids can absorb chemicals from their diet, making them taste unpleasant to many hungry predators.
サイズと詳細
- 長さ
- 1-4 cm
- 体重
- 1-5 g
- 寿命
- 0.5-1.5 年
食性と食事
A tiny carnivore, it exclusively eats barnacles, scraping them off surfaces.
主な食物
- barnacles
採餌方法
- Grazing
生態系とのつながり
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.
特徴
別名
Barnacle SlugDorid
コレクション
安全性
危険度
0/5 · 危険なし
まだ特別な安全上の注意はありません。
よくある質問
Barnacle-Eating Doridの長さは何ですか？
1-4 cm
Barnacle-Eating Doridの体重は何ですか？
1-5 g
Barnacle-Eating Doridの寿命は何ですか？
0.5-1.5 年
Barnacle-Eating Doridは何を食べますか？
A tiny carnivore, it exclusively eats barnacles, scraping them off surfaces.
Barnacle-Eating Doridは通常どこに生息していますか？
Barnacle-Eating Dorids live in tide pools and rocky coastal areas.
Barnacle-Eating Doridはどのように狩りをしますか？
Grazing
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