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Updated 12/17/2019

Family Aplysiidae

HAWAII

Aplysia elongata

Angel Ledge, Midway Atoll, 75 feet

 

Makapu'u tidepool, Oahu

Haleiwa Trench, Oahu, 15 feet

 

Kaiona, Oahu, 3 feet

 


Ma'alaea Bay, Maui

ELONGATE SEA HARE

Locally abundant on shallow reefs.  Pale blue parapodial margins, body cream with brown reticulations, or black with few or no white spots.  Attains 1.5 inch.  Endmeic to Hawai'i, formerly lumped with the circumtropical Aplysia parvula.