Assertion: sea slug | /r/Synonym | nudibranch
Facets:
value: technically
type: DEGREE
Source sentences:
text: To be more precise, Phylliroe is a type of sea slug known as a nudibranch, and is about the size of a goldfish.
text: Technically, sea slugs are nudibranches, which is Latin for "naked gills.
text: hence not all sea slugs are nudibranchs; (2) However, all nudibranchs are sea slugs.
text: The new research is significant because the sea slug known as Tritonia diomedea, a nudibranch mollusc species found in the shallow northeast Pacific, is important in laboratory studies of the how the brain controls behavior, a field known as neuroethology.
text: And the sea slug, known as a nudibranch, treats the polyps as living fishing nets, avidly scooping them up and swallowing them down as soon as the hapless hydroids finish their zooplankton supper.
text: These sea slugs, also known as nudibranches, live in coral reefs across the Indo-Pacific region.