Kauaʻi record · KCA-MOL-00077
Halimeda Sap-sucking Slug
Elysia pusilla
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About Halimeda Sap-sucking Slug
Sea Slugs of Hawaii explicitly includes Kauai; iNaturalist RG observations 194951700 (Kōloa Landing, 2012) and 178325139 (east Kauaʻi, 2023) have explicit island coordinates.
WoRMS AphiaID 536474 lists Elysia pusilla as accepted.
Expert account reports <1-12 m shallow habitat; Kōloa Landing is a coastal dive locality.
Accepted identity, explicit expert island distribution, qualifying shallow depth, and repeated modern Kauaʻi photographs support green inclusion. Reconciled rule: undated expert occurrence or community observations do not independently establish CURRENT status.
Names and classification
- Scientific name
- Elysia pusilla
- Common names
- Halimeda Sap-sucking Slug
- Other names
- Elysia pusilla
- 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 pusilla is included in the verified Kauaʻi mollusk census. Accepted identity, explicit expert island distribution, qualifying shallow depth, and repeated modern Kauaʻi photographs support green inclusion. Reconciled rule: undated expert occurrence or community observations do not independently establish CURRENT status.