In addition to the colored ink, sea hares can secrete a clear slime akin to that released defensively by hagfish which physically plugs the olfactory receptors of predators like lobsters.
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The animal ( s ) in between are acting as both males and females, in other words, the animal receiving sperm passes its own sperm to a third sea hare.
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The Opisthobranchia included species in the order Cephalaspidea ( bubble shells and headshield slugs ), the sacoglossans, anaspidean sea hares, pelagic sea angels, sea butterflies, and many families of the Nudibranchia.
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Philostratus writes that he was poisoned by Domitian with a sea hare ( " Aplysia depilans " ), and that his death had been foretold to him by Apollonius of Tyana.
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A "'rhinophore "'is one of a pair of marine gastropod opisthobranch mollusks such as the nudibranchs ( Nudibranchia ), Sea Hares, ( Aplysiomorpha ) and sap-sucking sea slugs ( Sacoglossa ).
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When it is considerably disturbed, the sea hare is capable of releasing two different kinds of ink from different locations within its mantle cavity, much in the way an octopus does.
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Those marine gastropods with no shells, or only internal shells, are variously known by other common names, including sea slug, sea hare, nudibranch, etc . The diversity within sea snails is enormous.
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""'Akera bullata " "'is a species of sea snail ( or sea slug ), a marine opisthobranch gastropod mollusk in the family Akeridae, a family that is related to the sea hares.
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The typical defence response of the sea hare to a predator is the release of chemicals such as free amino acids, ink from the ink gland and opaline from the opaline gland.
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""'Aplysia extraordinaria " "', common name the " extraordinary sea hare ", is a very large species of sea slug, more specifically a sea hare, a marine opisthobranch gastropod mollusk in the family Aplysiidae, the sea hares.
