Elysia viridis
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| Elysia viridis (Montagu, 1804) |
Elysia viridis is a small to medium sized species of green sea slug, a marine opisthobranch gastropod mollusk in the family Elysiidae.
This sea slug resembles a nudibranch, but it is not closely related to that order of gastropods, instead it is a sacoglossan.
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[edit] Distribution
This species lives in the northeastern Atlantic, from Norway to the Mediterranean Sea.
[edit] Life habits
This species lives in a subcellular endosymbiotic relationship with chloroplasts derived from the alga Codium fragile. These chloroplasts provide the Elysia host with the products of photosynthesis.[1][2][3]
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- ^ R.K. Trench, J.E. Boyle and D.C. Smith (1973). "The Association between Chloroplasts of Codium fragile and the Mollusc Elysia viridis. I. Characteristics of isolated Codium chloroplasts.". Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences 184: 51–61. doi:.
- ^ R.K. Trench, J.E. Boyle and D.C. Smith (1973). "The Association between Chloroplasts of Codium fragile and the Mollusc Elysia viridis. II. Chloroplast Ultrastructure and Photosynthetic Carbon Fixation in E. viridis". Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences 184: 63–81. doi:.
- ^ R.K. Trench, J.E. Boyle and D.C. Smith (1974). "The Association between Chloroplasts of Codium Fragile and the Mollusc Elysia viridis. III. Movement of Photosynthetically Fixed 14C in Tissues of Intact Living E. viridis and in Tridachia crispata". Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences 185: 453–464.
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