Facts: The Pizza Crust Sea Slug
Quick facts about this adorable sea slug that looks like a pepperoni and cheese! The pizza crust sea slug (Pleurobranchus areolatus, warty sidegill slug, Atlantic sidegill slug, rough sea slug). Pizza crust sea slug facts!
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The pizza crust sea slug is an adorable marine gastropod mollusk that primarily inhabits the
tropical western Atlantic Ocean. The sea slugs are covered in small round bumps called tubercles.
With their light golden brown and grayish white coloration, the tubercles look a lot like bits
of cheese and pepperoni. Their coloring helps them blend with their environment.
They can reportedly grow up to 6 inches long. Their body is oval and strongly flattened.
They use their broad, muscular foot to move. Their body extrudes a thick mucus.
They breathe through an external gill located on the right side. They have an internal,
oval shell. They are found under rocks and among coral rubble in shallow water.
They are thought to feed on ascidians. Ascidians are sessile, filter feeding invertebrates.
Like all sea slugs, pizza crust sea slugs have a rasping tongue called a radula
that helps to grasp and shred food. Two rhinophores are located near the front of the body.
The rhinophores are sensory organs that serve to pick up smells in the environment.
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