What is a "Spanish dancer"?

The name "Spanish dancer" often evokes a picture of a beautiful woman dancing night in a series of colorful skirts and scarves. Many people are surprised to learn that unlike this picture, the Spanish dancer is a type of sea slug, which falls into the category of nudibrach, also referred to as nudies. Hexabranchus sanguineus , its scientific name is a bright red gastropod A sea slug found in tropical areas of the Pacific Ocean Waters, most often in caves or around rocky surfaces. Swimming in the Red Sea was also found and it is one of the largest nudibrachs with the ability to grow up to 15.75 inches (40 cm). While Spanish dancers are considered a type of sea slug, not all sea slugs belong to the category of nudibrach, which caused some confusion to the public.

Hexabranchus sanguineus comes from its scientific name from its obvious characteristic. LatinThe name literally means "six colored blood". The Spanish dancer was first observed in the Red Sea by German natural scientists Eduard Ruppell and Friedrich Leuckart in 1828. Since then, other variations of the Spanish dancer have been more common. Instead of pure red color that gives hexabranchus sanguineus its name, it seems to be more more common versions more common, while yellow variations also rarely exist. The residential name of the sea animal comes from its appearance as it moves; When he swims, his pendants similar to his feet or parapodia are just like a skirt of Flamenco dancer.

Unlike other nudibrachs, this Red Sea has each of its six gills attached separately to the body. These gills, as with other boredom, can be inserted when it is close to danger. Like his other classification, Spanish dancers have two rhinos at the first end. These rhinos act as receptors of the fragrance and telling when it is in the area of ​​food or danger. As well as OstaThree nudibrachs is a Spanish dancer Hermaphroditic, although she can rarely fertilize. They put eggs in a formation similar to a zone that can look like seaweed on an untrained eye.

While Spanish dancers have specific habitats, nudibrachs are generally found in almost all waters around the world, with the most popular and most visible samples found in shallower tropical waters. They are not generally known about them, and for many individuals they have become a hobby to dive at sea to find new, undiscovered varieties. It may be difficult to distinguish whether nudibrach is an undiscovered species or variation already existing, and for this reason, the most obtained information about the category from the autopsy of animals that died of natural causes is the most obtained.