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nudibranchs. There are 3,000 species of nudibranchs, the formal name for sea slugs, living in all the oceans of the world. They range from tiny ones (1/8th of an inch long) to big ones as much as a foot long and 2 pounds in weight. |
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slugs comes in every imaginable color combination and in an amazing
assortment of shapes. But they all have one thing in common:
like the Spanish shawl nudibranch here, they wear their gills--the
equivalent of lungs--like decorations on the outside of their body.
With colorful, beautiful creatures like these nudibranchs, the sea
is a never-ending source of wonder.
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