Aplysia depilans

Gmelin, 1791 · species

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Animalia/Mollusca/Gastropoda/Aplysiida/Aplysiidae/Aplysia

At a glance

Occurrence records789

Data sources9

Biological traits5

DNA specimens3

eDNA detections0

Sources9 archives

Databases and archives Aplysia depilans's data was compiled from.

WikipediaWikimedia Foundation5 languages↗

BioWikiNetmultilingual Wikipediamultilingual↗

GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility723 records↗

OBISOcean Biodiversity Information System66 records↗

BOLD SystemsCentre for Biodiversity Genomics3 specimens↗

LOTUSNatural Products (Wikidata)compounds↗

NPASSNat. Product Activity & Species Sourcecompounds↗

Open Tree of LifeOpenTreephylogeny backbone↗

Catalogue of LifeCOLtaxonomy↗

On this page5 sections

Every layer below draws on the sources above — open one to explore it, or use ← → to move between tabs.

NarrativeWikipediaarticle

Traits & measurements1 literature sources5 traits

Chemical compositionLOTUS · NPASS28 compounds

Occurrence & distributionGBIF · OBIS789 records

DNA & barcodingBOLD3 specimens

01Narrative

Aplysia depilans, the depilatory sea hare, is a species of sea hare or sea slug, a marine opisthobranch gastropod mollusk in the family Aplysiidae. Its name has led to a folk etymology that its consumption caused hair loss.

No narrative description available for this taxon yet.

02Traits & measurements

SourcesSeaLifeBase

Size & morphology2

Body length40 cm

Body mass380 g

Life cycle & reproduction1

Max. longevity12 months

Habitat & environment2

Habitat saltwateryes

Habitat zonebenthic

03Chemical composition28 compounds

Compounds documented for Aplysia depilans across natural-product and food-composition databases — not just the ~150 nutrients on a classic label ("nutritional dark matter").

Compound class profile5 classes

Lactones4

Cholestane steroids4

Carotenoids (C40, β-ε)3

Carotenoids (C40, β-β)2

Other polyketide meroterpenoids1

Documented compounds28 total

Tissue Source Quantified only

Compound	Amount	Source
(10Z,13Z,16S)-16-[(1S)-1-hydroxypropyl]-1-oxacyclohexadeca-10,13-dien-2-one	present	LOTUS
(5S,8R,9R,10S,13R,14R,17R)-10,13-dimethyl-17-[(2S)-6-methylheptan-2-yl]-2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,11,12,14,15,16,17-tetradecahydro-1H-cyclopenta[a]phenanthrene	present	LOTUS
(5Z,8Z,11Z,14Z,16S)-16-methyl-1-oxacyclohexadeca-5,8,11,14-tetraen-2-one	present	LOTUS
(7Z,10Z,13Z,16S)-16-[(1S)-1-hydroxypropyl]-1-oxacyclohexadeca-7,10,13-trien-2-one	present	LOTUS
(7Z,10Z,13Z,16S,17S)-17-ethyl-16-hydroxy-1-oxacycloheptadeca-7,10,13-trien-2-one	present	LOTUS
2-Vinyl-4-[(1R)-2alpha-(3,4-dihydroxy-4-methylpentyl)-2-methyl-3beta-bromo-6-methylenecyclohexane-1beta-yl]-2-butanol	present	NPASS
2-Vinyl-4-[(1R)-2alpha-(3-bromo-4-hydroxy-4-methylpentyl)-2-methyl-3beta-bromo-6-methylenecyclohexane-1beta-yl]-2-butanol	present	NPASS
2-Vinyl-4-[(1R)-2alpha-(3-hydroxy-4-methyl-4-pentenyl)-2-methyl-3beta-bromo-6-methylenecyclohexane-1beta-yl]-2-butanol	present	NPASS
2-Vinyl-4-[(1R)-2alpha-(3-methoxy-4-hydroxy-4-methylpentyl)-2-methyl-3beta-bromo-6-methylenecyclohexane-1beta-yl]-2-butanol	present	NPASS
2-Vinyl-4-[(1R)-2alpha-(3-oxo-4-methylpentyl)-2-methyl-3beta-bromo-6-methylenecyclohexane-1beta-yl]-2-butanol	present	NPASS

05DNA & barcoding3 specimens

A DNA barcode is a short, standardised stretch of genes that works like a fingerprint — enough to tell one species from another. Below is the molecular trace Aplysia depilans has left across the world's sequence archives.

At a glance

DNA specimens3

BINs1

Marker genes1

Countries2

Marker genes sequenced

★ the standard DNA barcode for this group — the short region actually read to tell this species apart. The rest are extra genes sequenced along the way.

★COI-5P

animal barcode

08Occurrence & distribution

Record type789 records

Wild obs. + sensor669

Museum / vouchered68

Other52

Origin

Native3

Range

Area of Occupancy AOO1 128 km²

Depth

0–200 m sunlit27

200–1000 m twilight0

1–4 km midnight0

>4 km abyssal0

median 7 m · max 54 m · 27 records with depth

Wildobservation + sensor

Human sightings and records, or camera-trap / sensor detections — someone (or a device) saw or captured the species in the wild.

Coordinate accuracy92% within 1 km

≤100 m 222≤1 km 143≤10 km 19>10 km 14

398 georeferenced · 271 without coordinates

Open the mapobservation + sensor669

Museum / Voucheredphysical evidence

Backed by a physical specimen — a herbarium sheet, sample or voucher held in a collection. “Vouchered” means supported by material evidence, not just an observation.

Coordinate accuracy29% within 1 km

≤100 m 3≤1 km 4≤10 km 4>10 km 13

24 georeferenced · 44 without coordinates

Open the institutions mapphysical evidence68

Wildobservation + sensor

Human sightings and records, or camera-trap / sensor detections — someone (or a device) saw or captured the species in the wild.

10Collections & institutions

Holding institutions6 of 18 geolocated

Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.

Institution	Specimens
ICATMARlocation not on record	11
Natural History Museum Rotterdamlocation not on record	5
CASlocation not on record	3
RBINS-Scientific Heritagelocation not on record	3
Institut Francais pour l'Etude de la Merlocation not on record	3
Brussels, BE	3
AUTHlocation not on record	3
Barcelona, ES	2
Cambridge, US	2
Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales (CSIC)location not on record	2
NHMOlocation not on record	2
Philadelphia, US	1
Royal Museum for Central Africalocation not on record	1
Helsinki, FI	1
University of Oslo, Natural History Museumlocation not on record	1
University of Barcelona, Department of Evolutionary Biology, Ecology and Environmental Scienceslocation not on record	1
Provincia di Livornolocation not on record	1
Chicago, US	1

18 institutions · 46 of 68 vouchered records shown

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