They are called shag rug sea slugs, which bear numerous projections (cerata) along their backs, except for a long bare patch ...

Aeolids have fingerlike projections, called cerata, that function as gills and are always exposed. Cerata also contain branches of the digestive tract. To find food, nudibranchs use their ...

Aeolids are covered in cerata—fleshy growths that resemble anemone tendrils, only shorter. There is one aeolid that looks ...

Instead of digesting the nematocysts, the slug steals them for itself. The acquired cell organelles are then recycled into the flamboyant, tentacle-like cerata on their backs. The now stinging ...