Sea Angel

Sea Angel

By Lidia Company

INDEX

1. Where can you find it?

7. What can we do?

2. What is it?

8. Facts

3. Size

9. Video

4. Type

10. Questions

5. Food

11. End

6. How do they multiply

Where can you find it?

They inhabit the frigid waters of the Arctic, subarctic Atlantic, and Pacific oceans, and prey on sea butterflies—specifically a small type of sea snail called Limacina helicina.

MAP

Here is where you can find it

What is a Sea Angel?

Sea angels are a large group of extremely small, swimming sea slugs, they are classified into six different families.

SIZE

There are two subspecies that differ in body length. The northern subspecies lives in cooler waters, matures to 3 cm (1.2 inches) and can reach a size of 7-8.5 cm (2.8-3.3 inches). The size of the southern subspecies is 1.2 cm (0.47 in).

TYPE

sea angel

Clione

Clione limacina

TYPE

clione limacina from the Artic

Clione limacina king

Acodiv

What does sea angels eat??

Some species of sea angels feed exclusively on sea butterflies; the angels have terminal mouths with the radula common to mollusks, and tentacles to grasp their prey.

How do they multiply???

It reproduces during spring and summer, and the eggs are approximately 0.12 mm (4.7 thousand).

Subtítulo

What can we do to save them?

Help take care of the beaches

Your thoghts

Do not buy products that take advantage of Marine Life

Support organizations that work to protect the Sea.

Facts

Predator

How do they evolve

Realy cool facts

The little horn like objects are actually sensory organs! The wing - like structure they have called the parapodia are actually their feet

It has no predators since it produces a molecule called pteroenone. This secretion prevents the predators from eating the sea angels.

Sea angels have evolved the behaviour of living in the water column. They're born swimming in the ocean, they grow up swimming in the ocean, and they spend all of their lives in the middle of the water never touching the bottom.

Sea angels catch their prey by shooting tentacles out of their face grabbing and its prey. Then they rip the prey out of its shell, swallowing it whole

VIDEO

See a actual Sea angel in movement!!!

QUESTIONS

THE END