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Sea-slug eggs

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Sea-slug eggs

Resembling delicate lacework, this is the egg mass of New Zealand’s largest sea slug, Archidoris wellingtonensis.

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Maggy Wassilieff, Shellfish – Sea slugs, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/8099/sea-slug-eggs (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Maggy Wassilieff, published 2 March 2009.