Sentences with phrase «sea slug species»

He estimates that he's discovered between 1,200 and 1,500 new species of nudibranchs — about one - third of all sea slug species that are known to exist.

«One interesting study aspect is the potency of the compound which five different sea slug species chose to store,» Professor Garson said.

Not exact matches

Many of the same molecules have been implicated in both declarative and nondeclarative memory and in species as varied as sea slugs, fruit flies, and rodents, suggesting that the molecular machinery for memory has been widely conserved.

That includes San Francisco Bay, where the majority of inhabitants are alien species such as Chinese mitten crabs, New Zealand sea slugs and Japanese gobies — all brought by ballast water.

A total of 289 species have been documented arriving this way, including fish, mussels, sea slugs, sea stars, crabs and sponges — all native to Japanese waters.

WARM waters in the Pacific Ocean are encouraging dozens of species of nudibranch sea slugs to head north at a surprising pace.

Students study and then monitor twenty - four species, from starfish to sea slugs, all strong indicators of the health of a beach's environment.

The purple lady nudibranch or Flabellina funeka, is a species of aeolid nudibranch, and is a very colourful sea slug.

A small team of scientists at The University of Western Australia, the Western Australian Museum, and the California Academy of Sciences has identified 18 new species of sea slugs, including some...