| Pleurobranchaea maculata | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Family: | Pleurobranchidae |
| Genus: | Pleurobranchaea |
| Species: | P. maculata |
| Binomial name | |
| Pleurobranchaea maculata Quoy & Gaimard, 1834 |
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Pleurobranchaea maculata, or the grey side-gilled slug, is a species of sea slug, a marine opisthobranch gastropod mollusk in the family Pleurobranchidae.
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North and South Islands of New Zealand.
This species is found intertidally in harbours, and to depths of up to 250 m off rocky coasts.
This slug has no shell.
Coloration is pale grey, densely patterned with short, brown lines.
Length is up to 100 mm.
This slug eats sea anemones, marine worms, and molluscs.
Several dogs died of tetrodotoxin poisoning after eating Pleurobranchaea maculata on Auckland beaches in 2009.[1]
