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Kōrero: Shellfish

Sea hare

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Sea hare

This strange-looking slug is a sea hare. They can become quite numerous in rock pools or estuaries, where they graze on seaweeds. Much of our knowledge of how human memory is retained comes from studies on Californian sea hares.

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Te Ara - The Encyclopedia of New Zealand

by Melanie Lovell-Smith

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Maggy Wassilieff, Shellfish – Sea slugs, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/8020/sea-hare (accessed 24 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Maggy Wassilieff, i tāngia i te 2 March 2009.