green sea slug
Posted: Thu Feb 20, 2014 7:38 am
Elysia chlorotica:
"Some members of 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 subcellular endosymbiotic relationship with chloroplasts of the marine heterokont alga Vaucheria litorea."
