




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.
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.





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Invertebrateレア度
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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!
Barnacle-Eating Dorids can scrape barnacles off surfaces using their tough radula because it's like a tiny, specialized conveyer belt of teeth.
Barnacle-Eating Dorids have a bumpy, wart-like body texture that helps them blend perfectly with rough, encrusted rocks.
Barnacle-Eating Dorids can absorb chemicals from their diet, making them taste unpleasant to many hungry predators.
A tiny carnivore, it exclusively eats barnacles, scraping them off surfaces.
Semibalanus balanoides
Scrapes these common intertidal barnacles from rocks.
Carcinus maenas
Often preyed upon by this common shore crab.
Nucella lapillus
Occasionally eaten by this predatory sea snail.
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1-4 cm
1-5 g
0.5-1.5 年
A tiny carnivore, it exclusively eats barnacles, scraping them off surfaces.
Barnacle-Eating Dorids live in tide pools and rocky coastal areas.
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