Caliphylla mediterranea Mediterranean Sapsucking Slug, Itty-bitty Sap-sucking Sea Slug

Caliphylla mediterranea is commonly referred to as Mediterranean Sapsucking Slug, Itty-bitty Sap-sucking Sea Slug. Difficulty in the aquarium: There are no reports available yet that this animal has already been kept in captivity successfully. Toxicity: Toxic hazard unknown.

Profile

lexID:

9863 

AphiaID:

140089 

Scientific:

Caliphylla mediterranea 

German:

Mittelmeer Saftsauger 

English:

Mediterranean Sapsucking Slug, Itty-bitty Sap-sucking Sea Slug 

Category:

 

Family tree:

Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Gastropoda (Class) > Sacoglossa (Order) > Hermaeidae (Family) > Caliphylla (Genus) > mediterranea (Species) 

Initial determination:

A. Costa, 1867 

Occurrence:

Ascencion, St. Helena & Tristan da Cunha, Azores, Brazil, Canada Eastern Pacific, Cuba, Gulf of Mexico, North Atlantic Ocean, the Canary Islands, the Caribbean, the Mediterranean Sea, USA, West-Atlantic Ocean 

Marine Zone:

Subtidal, sublittoral, infralittoral, deep zone of the oceans from the lower limit of the intertidal zone (intertidal) to the shelf edge at about 200 m water depth. neritic. 

Sea depth:

- 5 Meter 

Size:

0" - 0" (0,8cm - 0,9cm) 

Temperature:

°F - 77 °F (°C - 25°C) 

Food:

Food specialist 

Difficulty:

There are no reports available yet that this animal has already been kept in captivity successfully 

Offspring:

None 

Toxicity:

Toxic hazard unknown 

CITES:

Not evaluated 

Red List:

Not evaluated (NE) 

Related species at
Catalog of Life:

• 
  Caliphylla mediterranea
  Mittelmeer Saftsauger

 

More related species
in this lexicon:

• 
  Caliphylla viridis
  Saftsauger

 

Author:

Meerwasser-Lexikon Team

Publisher:

Meerwasser-Lexikon.de

Created:

2016-07-22 08:00:34 

Last edit:

2024-03-05 19:28:15 

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