The Devil Inside Remember our adorable little friend, the sea angel (Clione limacina)? This is
The Devil Inside Remember our adorable little friend, the sea angel (Clione limacina)? This is the sea angel in hunting mode. When feeding and hunting, C. limacina can rapidly shoot out three pairs of buccal cones which latch onto its prey (and fellow pterapod), the sea butterfly. These cones are lined with adhesive ridges and excrete a viscous material that help prevent the sea butterfly from escaping. Then, as C. limacina holds the captured sea butterfly in front of its mouth, it uses specialized hooks to extract its prey’s soft parts to be devoured. Mmmm…heavenly! Image source: Alexander Semenov Reference: Hermans and Satterlie. 1992. -- source link
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