Sea Angels - sea slug species

[coyote]

Beautiful sea angels video.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVMyg9dXkWo

"Ethereal, otherwordly, translucent sea angels seem to hover through the cold waters of the Arctic Ocean."

[Robert Nordsieck]

Hi there,

and pretty threatened they are too.
By the way, sea angels are not very angel-like, except in their appearance - they feed exclusively on sea-butterflies (Limacina helicina), which on the other hand, feed on jellyfish.

As the sea-butterfly disappears because of sea water pollution, so does the sea-angel.

> www.molluscs.at/gastropoda/sea/pteropoda.html

Kind regards
Robert

[brunni]

Robert is correct.

The sea is changing, a lot of common fish have disappeared, no whales sighted these last 6 weeks. Local fishermen become ever-desperate. Now its dynamite, under-size gill nets,..............