Back اليسيا كريسباتا ARZ Морски охлюв маруля Bulgarian Elysia crispata CEB Elysia crispata Spanish لیسه برگکاهویی Persian Elysia crispata Finnish Elysia crispata French Elysia crispata Italian Elysia crispata Dutch Elysia crispata Russian
| Lettuce sea slug | |
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| A live individual of the lettuce sea slug in situ, head end towards the lower right | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Family: | Plakobranchidae |
| Genus: | Elysia |
| Species: | E. crispata
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| Binomial name | |
| Elysia crispata (Mörch, 1863)
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List
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Elysia crispata, common name the lettuce sea slug or lettuce slug, is a large and colorful species of sea slug, a marine gastropod mollusk.[2]
The lettuce slug resembles a nudibranch, but it is not closely related to that clade of gastropods; it is classified as a sacoglossan.
- ^ "NatureServe Explorer 2.0". explorer.natureserve.org. Retrieved 21 February 2025.
- ^ a b Bieler R, Bouchet P, Gofas S, Marshall B, Rosenberg G, La Perna R, Neubauer TA, Sartori AF, Schneider S, Vos C, ter Poorten JJ, Taylor J, Dijkstra H, Finn J, Bank R, Neubert E, Moretzsohn F, Faber M, Houart R, Picton B, Garcia-Alvarez O, eds. (2022). "Elysia crispata Mörch, 1863". MolluscaBase. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 2022-10-08.