Black Sea Hare

Description:

The black sea hare can grow to be very large. The longest recorded specimen measured ninety-nine centimeters when crawling (and thus fully extended), and weighed nearly fourteen kilograms. Unlike Aplysia californica, the body of this species is relatively firm, and the parapodia are joined behind the siphon. Unlike many other members of the same family, and genus, this species is incapable of producing ink.

Habitat:

This sea hare species lives in California and Baja California, Mexico.

Notes:

Aplysia vaccaria, also known as the "black sea hare," and the "California black sea hare," is a species of extremely large sea slug, a marine, opisthobranch, gastropod mollusk in the family Aplysiidae. It is the largest known species of sea slug, and may be the world's largest living gastropod.