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    MENAGERIE A real blue dragon

    Jun 03, 2020 2 minutes

    The thought of a gas-filled mollusc floating around the ocean on its back does not to mind a pretty sight. However, the dragon (Glaucus atlanticus)is a nudibranch with elegance.

    Nudibranchs are small, often intensely colourful sea creatures. Hermaphoditic, they produce both long, spiral-shaped eggs and soon lose their larval shell and become part of the “pleuston community that just high seas”, according to research scientist Dr Lisa-ann Gershwin, director of the Australian Stinger Advisory Service.

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