Julia exquisita is one of the sacoglossans with a bivalved shell.When the animal is retracted, you'd think you were looking at a small green clam. Then the slug's head and foot come out and the animal crawls away like a typical snail. The tiny specimen below was found on a Kwajalein Atoll lagoon pinnacle on 8 December 2008 at a depth of about 8m.
The bivalved nature of the shell is easy to see in the next photo.
The photo below was taken with a Dinolite digital microscope in a holding dish.
Created 10 December 2008
Updated 20 December 2008