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What is a nudibranch?

Updated: 10/9/2023
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No. A Nudibranch is a mollusk, which is an invertebrate, related to marine snails that looks like a slug.

Invertebrate means lacking vertebrae (backbone).

All mammals are vertebrates, thus they have a backbone.

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A nudibranch is not an echinoderm.

A crucial difference between and echinoderm and a nudibranch is that echinoderms (things such as sea cucumbers, starfish, and urchins) are deuterostoms while Nudibranchs (gastropods related to snails) are protostomes.

A protostome has: Spiral cleavage, blastopore becomes mouth and the nerve cord of the central nervous system is ventral

A deuterostome has: radial cleavage, blastopore does not become mouth(often becomes anus) , and Nerve cords of the central nervous system are not ventral.

There are many other differences but these are some of the basics.

As a human you are a deuterostome. So you are closer related to a Sea Cucumber than a Nudibranch!

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It is a member of the Mollusk group. It is a poisonous snail that is shell-less. It is usually yellow or orange in color. It can eat its own kind. It looks like a tube of jelly.

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Nudibranches are invertebrates . no backbone.

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A nudibranch is a type of snail.

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