Elysia viridis

Taxobox
name = "Elysia viridis"
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Mollusca
classis = Gastropoda
subclassis = Orthogastropoda
superordo = Heterobranchia
ordo = Opisthobranchia
subordo = Sacoglossa
supefamilia = Elysioidea
familia = Elysiidae
genus = "Elysia"
species = "E. viridis"
binomial = "Elysia viridis"
binomial_authority = (Montagu, 1804)

"Elysia viridis" is a small-to-medium-sized species of green sea slug, a marine opisthobranch gastropod mollusk in the family Elysiidae.

This sea slug resembles a nudibranch, but it is not closely related to that order of gastropods. It is instead a sacoglossan.

Distribution

This species lives in the northeastern Atlantic, from Norway to the Mediterranean Sea.

Life habits

This species lives in a subcellular endosymbiotic relationship with chloroplasts derived from the alga "Codium fragile". These chloroplasts provide the "Elysia" host with the products of photosynthesis. [cite journal
author = R.K. Trench, J.E. Boyle and D.C. Smith
title = The Association between Chloroplasts of Codium fragile and the Mollusc Elysia viridis. I. Characteristics of isolated Codium chloroplasts.
journal = Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences
volume = 184
pages = 51–61
url = http://www.journals.royalsoc.ac.uk/content/y34k381723063106/
date = 1973
doi = 10.1098/rspb.1973.0030 ] [cite journal
author = R.K. Trench, J.E. Boyle and D.C. Smith
title = The Association between Chloroplasts of Codium fragile and the Mollusc Elysia viridis. II. Chloroplast Ultrastructure and Photosynthetic Carbon Fixation in E. viridis
journal = Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences
volume = 184
pages = 63–81
url = http://www.journals.royalsoc.ac.uk/content/07x671g01u037283/
date = 1973
doi = 10.1098/rspb.1973.0031 ] [cite journal
author = R.K. Trench, J.E. Boyle and D.C. Smith
title = The Association between Chloroplasts of Codium Fragile and the Mollusc Elysia viridis. III. Movement of Photosynthetically Fixed ¹⁴C in Tissues of Intact Living E. viridis and in Tridachia crispata
journal = Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences
volume = 185
pages = 453–464
url = http://www.journals.royalsoc.ac.uk/content/8041133619x77516/
date = 1974 ]

References

ee also

* "Elysia chlorotica"