Species Profile
Aplysia
Sea hare
KingdomAnimalia
PhylumMollusca
ClassGastropoda
OrderUnknown
FamilyUnknown
Introduction
Aplysia inhabits shallow marine waters.
It feeds on algae.
It is important in nervous system research.
Size & Structure
01
Large soft body
02
Parapodia present
03
Reduced shell
04
Brown or purple colour
Aplysia — 3D Model
No 3D model available
General Features
- Coelom
- Eucoelomate (reduced)
- Body plan
- Tube within a tube body plan (Protostomous)
- Germ layer
- Triploblastic
- Metamerism
- Absent
- Body symmetry
- Bilateral (secondarily asymmetrical)
- Fertilization
- Internal
- Digestion type
- Complete, extracellular
- Nervous system
- Well-developed ganglionic
- Excretory organ
- Metanephridia
- Body temperature
- Poikilothermic, stenohaline
- Circulatory type
- Open circulation, single
- Development type
- Indirect
- Respiratory type
- Ctenidial respiration
- Mode of excretion
- Ammonotelism
- Circulation system
- Open
- Skeleton structure
- Reduced internal shell
- Level of Organisation
- Organ-system level
- Regulation of Osmosis
- Osmoconformer
Ecology
Algal grazer
Maintains algal balance
Part of marine food chain
Economic Importance
Neurobiological research
Educational importance
Marine ecology studies