Stylocheilus striatus

Stylocheilus striatus is a species of sea hare with a circumtropical distribution living from the intertidal zone to a depth of 30 metres. Mature animals can reach sizes up to 65 mm and are brown in colour with blue spots. Their diet mainly consists of blue algae. They play an important role in controlling toxic blooms of the cyanobacterium Lyngbya majuscula numbers.[1]

Stylocheilus striatus
Stylocheilus striatus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura
clade Euopisthobranchia
clade Aplysiomorpha
P. Fischer, 1883
Superfamily:
Aplysioidea
Family:
Aplysiidae
Genus:
Stylocheilus
Species:
S. striatus
Binomial name
Stylocheilus striatus
Quoy & Gaimard, 1832

Recent work has shown that the survival of both eggs and veligers can be negatively impacted by anthropogenic noise pollution, but the developmental rate of eggs is not.[2]

References
  1. Paul, Valerie J.; Pennings, Steven C. (October 1991). "Diet-derived chemical defenses in the sea hare Stylocheilus longicauda (Quoy et Gaimard 1824)". Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology. 151 (2): 227–243. doi:10.1016/0022-0981(91)90126-H.
  2. Nedelec, Sophie L.; Radford, Andrew N.; Simpson, Stephen D.; Nedelec, Brendan; Lecchini, David; Mills, Suzanne C. (31 July 2014). "Anthropogenic noise playback impairs embryonic development and increases mortality in a marine invertebrate". Scientific Reports. 4 (1). doi:10.1038/srep05891.
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