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Solar-powered sea slugs

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Solar-powered sea slugs may refer to two groups of marine opisthobranch gastropods that are able to use photosynthesis as a supplementary nutritional source:

  • Sacoglossa, which incorporate functioning chloroplasts into their tissues using kleptoplasty
  • Species of aeolid nudibranchs in the genera Phyllodesmium and Pteraeolidia, which incorporate living zooxanthellae in their tissues