Molecular Biology and Genetics Statistics of barcoding coverage
|Specimen Records:||69||Public Records:||33| |Specimens with
Sequences:||44||Public Species:||20| |Specimens with
Barcodes:||36||Public BINs:||23| |Species With Barcodes:||21|
This superfamily contains only one family, the Aplysiidae; the
sea hares. These animals are commonly called sea hares because,
unlike most sea slugs, they are often quite large, and when they
are underwater, their rounded body shape and the long
rhinophores on their heads mean that their overall shape
resembles that of a sitting rabbit or hare. Sea hares are
however shell-less sea snails, and some species are extremely
large. The Californian black sea hare, Aplysia vaccaria is
arguably the largest living gastropod species, and is certainly
the largest living shell-less gastropod. In Australia sea hares
are sometimes known as "beach blobbies". Sea hares do sometimes
become stranded on beaches, and when this happens, they contract
as much as possible to minimize desiccation,