Home > Invertebrates  > Slugs > Sea Hares > Aplysia argus

Updated 8/22/2020

Family Aplysiidae

INDO-PACIFIC /  HAWAII

Aplysia argus

Makapu'u tidepool, Oahu

 

Cromwells, Black Point, Oahu, 3 feet

 


Haleiwa Trench, Oahu, 10 feet

Laysan Island, NWHI, 4 feet
   

WHITE-SPECKLED SEA HARE

Common on shallow reef flats, forms mating chain many animals long during winter.  Brown with cloudy white markings and large black rings.  Attains 8 inches.  Indo-Pacific including Hawai'i.  Formerly known as Aplysia dactylomela, which is the Atlantic form.