Kauaʻi record · KCA-MOL-00073
Lobed Elysia
Elysia lobata
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About Lobed Elysia
Sea Slugs of Hawaii explicitly includes Kauai; iNaturalist RG observation 193637890 is dated 2010-05-05 at the Salt Pond/Port Allen coast of Kauaʻi.
WoRMS AphiaID 494457 lists Elysia lobata as accepted.
Expert account gives a shallow 1-2 m (3-6 ft) habitat range.
Expert island distribution, accepted name, direct shallow range, and island photograph support inclusion; yellow for age/single local record. Reconciled rule: undated expert occurrence or community observations do not independently establish CURRENT status.
Names and classification
- Scientific name
- Elysia lobata
- Common names
- Lobed Elysia
- Other names
- Elysia lobata
- Record type
- species
Kauaʻi occurrence and status
- Kauaʻi occurrence
- Authoritative survey or expert evidence verifies Kauaʻi occurrence historically; community observations were not used to promote the record to CURRENT.
- Origin
- Origin not inferred from occurrence census
- Conservation status
- Not assessed
- Evidence limits
- Occurrence category and evidence are source-bounded. Abundance, trend, and living status are not inferred beyond the reviewed evidence.
Habitat and ecology
- Habitats
- Marine reef and nearshore
Process and seasonal context
- Seasonal description
- Elysia lobata is included in the verified Kauaʻi mollusk census. Expert island distribution, accepted name, direct shallow range, and island photograph support inclusion; yellow for age/single local record. Reconciled rule: undated expert occurrence or community observations do not independently establish CURRENT status.