Talk:Glaucus atlanticus

message: I just rewrote the intro to clear up confusion regarding Glaucilla marginata. Let me know if I've gotten anything wrong. AstarothCY (talk) 13:26, 11 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Glaucilla confusion 

message: I changed the importance to high, because this article is surprisingly often consulted. Invertzoo (talk) 13:20, 13 April 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Importance

message: "It has dark blue stripes along the edge of its foot."
Does whatever it has qualify as a foot? - Anton Nordenfur (talk) 00:04, 3 July 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Apparantly the dorsal side is classified as its foot. I have to read up on slugs. - Anton Nordenfur (talk) 00:24, 3 July 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, all gastropods have a foot. Invertzoo (talk) 01:18, 20 June 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Foot? 

message: Every photo of this on the internet looks horribly fake. Are these real, and if so, can we get something less photoshopped looking?
65.27.134.29 (talk) 01:57, 4 March 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, they are real. Unfortunately, I don't have any photos to give, but I can tell you they're real because I've seen them with my own eyes. :]  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.185.161.28 (talk) 12:27, 26 May 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: They are indeed real, and yes they do look quite extraordinary, both when they are floating on the water surface and also when they are collapsed on the beach after they are accidentally washed up. Invertzoo (talk) 18:11, 11 February 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  "True Story?" 

message: Some clearer information re their danger to humans if any would be good --— ⦿⨦⨀Tumadoireacht Talk/Stalk 00:26, 28 February 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: They definitely do not bite; the mouth and radula are both far too small to make a dent on human skin. However, these sea slugs can deliver a very painful sting. I just now tried to add a couple of sentences to the intro explaining a little bit more, and linking to the appropriate section of the Portuguese man o' war article which really does talk about the venom. Invertzoo (talk) 01:41, 20 June 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  toxic/poisonous  

message: It appears to be the case that over the years, students fairly frequently add edits to this article. Although Wikipedia is indeed the encyclopedia that anyone can edit, and we do welcome new editors and are grateful for any constructive work, nonetheless I would ask new editors to be very careful and to read the whole article through carefully before they drop in any information. 
Try to make sure that you are not duplicating information that already exists in another section of the article, and try to make sure that you are putting information into the correct section. Info needs to be accompanied by a reference. If you need some help, please just ask at the Gastropod Project Talk page or on my own talk page. Thanks everyone, Invertzoo (talk) 17:51, 11 February 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Student edits 

message: Hello! This is a note to let the editors of this article know that :File:Glaucus atlanticus 1 cropped.jpg will be appearing as picture of the day on February 5, 2016. You can view and edit the POTD blurb at Template:POTD/2016-02-05. If this article needs any attention or maintenance, it would be preferable if that could be done before its appearance on the Main Page. — Chris Woodrich (talk) 01:37, 17 January 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[:File:Glaucus atlanticus 1 cropped.jpg]] to appear as POTD soon 

message: Beautiful photograph. But is this animal really camouflaged? I had understood that its coloration emphasized its shape; as it is also strongly defended with toxins, it may well be aposematic, the opposite of camouflage. The ref (from weebly) is not adequate to decide the matter. Chiswick Chap (talk) 16:44, 5 February 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Camouflage?

message: I came on this page to learn about the creature. It raises more questions than it solves. Where does this thing live in the world? How on earth does it attack and kill (if that's what the article means by 'prey') the massive man o' war?
Someone with knowledge please answer these questions!  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.127.25.44 (talk) 12:20, 24 November 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  where does it live, how does it attack man o' war? 

message: OK, this is very much POV, but these are the critters that came to mind when reading about the critters that lived in Arthur Clarke's Europa in the book "2010"  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2001:8003:E422:3C01:8CFC:989E:E789:4929 (talk) 07:34, 9 December 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  "In fiction" 

message: Glaucus atlanticus 203.190.202.112 (talk) 02:41, 8 January 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  B 

message: How can it be 3cm with papillae up to 84”? This seems like an error? In description. 2601:447:C281:C620:19B3:9B16:573E:E01 (talk) 16:26, 23 February 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Measurements: how can it be 3cm and have papillae up to 84”?? 

message: I've been wondering is it possible to feed them something else, Something that doesn't have poison in it? Poison dart frogs are only poisonous due to diet, could the blue sea slug be or do the same thing? Ghostsayboo (talk) 18:00, 30 March 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Possible for non-poisonous blue sea slug 

message: Link 23 under Life History and behavior does not provide any mention or evidence to support claim that this species selects the most venomous stinging cells from its prey. Spellingmistakes (talk) 18:30, 1 June 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Claim with no evidence