Aplysia vaccaria

Winkler, 1955 · species

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Animalia/Mollusca/Gastropoda/Aplysiida/Aplysiidae/Aplysia

At a glance

Occurrence records8 188

Data sources9

Biological traits6

DNA specimens5

eDNA detections0

Sources9 archives

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

WikipediaWikimedia Foundation6 languages↗

BioWikiNetmultilingual Wikipediamultilingual↗

GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility5 245 records↗

OBISOcean Biodiversity Information System2 943 records↗

BOLD SystemsCentre for Biodiversity Genomics5 specimens↗

LOTUSNatural Products (Wikidata)compounds↗

NPASSNat. Product Activity & Species Sourcecompounds↗

Open Tree of LifeOpenTreephylogeny backbone↗

GLoBIGlobal Biotic Interactionsbiotic interactions↗

On this page5 sections

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NarrativeWikipediaarticle

Traits & measurements1 literature sources6 traits

Chemical compositionLOTUS · NPASS21 compounds

Occurrence & distributionGBIF · OBIS8 188 records

DNA & barcodingBOLD5 specimens

01Narrative

Aplysia vaccaria, also known as the black sea hare and California black sea hare, is a species of extremely large sea slug, a marine, opisthobranch, gastropod mollusk in the family Aplysiidae.Bouchet, P. (2011). Aplysia vaccaria Winkler, 1955. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=568031 on 2012-03-31 It is the largest sea slug species.

No narrative description available for this taxon yet.

02Traits & measurements

SourcesSeaLifeBase

Size & morphology2

Body length99 cm

Body mass15 900 g

Life cycle & reproduction1

Max. longevity12 months

Habitat & environment2

Habitat saltwateryes

Habitat zonebenthic

Other traits1

Vulnerability59.6

03Chemical composition21 compounds

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

Compound class profile5 classes

Flavones6

Serrulatane and Biflorane diterpenoids4

Lathyrane diterpenoids2

Stigmastane steroids1

Flavonols1

Documented compounds21 total

Tissue Source Quantified only

Compound	Amount	Source
(+)-Ursolic Acid	present	NPASS
(2R,4R,5S,7S,8R)-7-hydroxy-5-methyl-8-[(2R)-6-methylhept-5-en-2-yl]-11-oxatricyclo[7.3.0.02,4]dodec-1(9)-en-12-one	present	LOTUS
(2R,4R,5S,7S,8R,10R)-7,10-dihydroxy-5-methyl-8-[(2R)-6-methylhept-5-en-2-yl]-11-oxatricyclo[7.3.0.02,4]dodec-1(9)-en-12-one	present	LOTUS
[(1R,3E,5R,7S,9Z,11R,12R,13S,14S)-11,13-dihydroxy-3,6,6,10,14-pentamethyl-2-oxo-1-tricyclo[10.3.0.05,7]pentadeca-3,9-dienyl] (E)-3-phenylprop-2-enoate	present	NPASS
[(1R,3E,5R,7S,9Z,11R,12R,13S,14S)-11,13-dihydroxy-3-(hydroxymethyl)-6,6,10,14-tetramethyl-2-oxo-1-tricyclo[10.3.0.05,7]pentadeca-3,9-dienyl] (E)-3-phenylprop-2-enoate	present	NPASS
[(2R,4R,5S,7S,8R,10R)-10-hydroxy-5-methyl-8-[(2R)-6-methylhept-5-en-2-yl]-12-oxo-11-oxatricyclo[7.3.0.02,4]dodec-1(9)-en-7-yl] acetate	present	LOTUS
Acacetin	present	NPASS
Acetoxycrenulide	present	LOTUS
Apigenin	present	NPASS
Betulin	present	NPASS

05DNA & barcoding5 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 vaccaria has left across the world's sequence archives.

At a glance

DNA specimens5

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 type8 188 records

Wild obs. + sensor8 128

Museum / vouchered60

Range

Area of Occupancy AOO1 320 km²

Depth

0–200 m sunlit2 926

200–1000 m twilight0

1–4 km midnight0

>4 km abyssal0

median 8.8 m · max 23.2 m · 2 926 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 accuracy97% within 1 km

≤100 m 1 562≤1 km 6 028≤10 km 129>10 km 140

7 859 georeferenced · 269 without coordinates

Open the mapobservation + sensor8 128

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 accuracy46% within 1 km

≤100 m 5≤1 km 12≤10 km 8>10 km 12

37 georeferenced · 23 without coordinates

Open the institutions mapphysical evidence60

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 institutions2 of 8 geolocated

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

Institution	Specimens
CASlocation not on record	16
Los Angeles, US	14
Santa Barbara Museum of Natural Historylocation not on record	7
Museo de Historia Natural, Universidad Autónoma de Baja California Surlocation not on record	2
Mexico City, MX	1
Centro Interdisciplinario de Ciencias Marinas, Instituto Politécnico Nacionallocation not on record	1
WoRMS Editorial Boardlocation not on record	1
Centre for Biodiversity Genomicslocation not on record	1

8 institutions · 43 of 60 vouchered records shown

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Aplysia vaccaria

At a glance

Sources9 archives

Size & morphology2

Life cycle & reproduction1

Habitat & environment2

Other traits1

Compound class profile5 classes

Documented compounds21 total

At a glance

Record type8 188 records

Range

Depth

Wildobservation + sensor

Museum / Voucheredphysical evidence

Wildobservation + sensor

Holding institutions2 of 8 geolocated

Record type8 188 records