Lettuce Sea Slug
Elysia crispata
A ruffled green sea slug that looks like a leaf of frilly lettuce and runs partly on sunlight.
- Typical size
- 1–3 in
- How often it turns up
- Uncommon
- Collecting
- Protected, do not collect
- Handling
- Photograph and release
Living beach animals should be photographed and left where they are. Many are protected, and most cannot survive being moved.
How to tell it apart
- Heavily ruffled green frills
- Blue or white speckling
- Slow-moving, on shallow rubble
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