Elysia Chlorotica, common name "the eastern emerald elysia", is a small-to-medium-sized species of green sea slug, a marineopisthobranch gastropod mollusc. This sea slug superficially resembles a nudibranch, yet it does not belong to a that suborder of gastropods. Instead it is a member of the closely-related suborder Sacoglossa. The suborder Sacoglossa are known as the "sap-sucking Opisthobranchias". Many members o this group use chloroplasts from the algae they eat; a phenomenon known as kleptoplasty. Elysia chlorotica is one of the "solar-powered sea slugs", utilizing solar energy via chloroplasts from its algal food. It lives in a subcellularendosmybiotic relationship with chloroplasts of the marine heterokont alga Vaucheria litorea.
In other words.... this dude is both a plant and an animal!!!!!! a sea slug that can photosynthesize!!!!!
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