Common clione (Clione limacina) feeding on a Limacina helicina sea snail. This is a sea angel, a type of sea slug. Sea angels are free-swimming sea sl


Common clione (Clione limacina) feeding on a Limacina helicina sea snail. This is a sea angel, a type of sea slug. Sea angels are free-swimming sea slugs that inhabit the cold northern oceans of the world. They are simultaneous hermaphrodites, possessing both male and female sexual organs. Its prey includes sea snails. Photographed in the White Sea, Russia.


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