Here’s a quick illustration of a clione I did recently. A clione is a type of sea slug commonly known as a sea angel and this species, Clione limacina, is found in arctic waters and is pelagic. These have a VERY peculiar and fascinating anatomy as is described on The Sea Slug Forum:
Kelly Brenner
Kelly Brenner is a naturalist, writer and artist based in Seattle. She is the author of THE NATURALIST AT HOME: Projects for Discovering the Hidden World Around Us and NATURE OBSCURA: A City’s Hidden Natural World from Mountaineers Books, a finalist for the Washington State Book Awards and Pacific Northwest Book Awards. She writes articles about natural history and has bylines in Crosscut, Popular Science, National Wildlife Magazine and others. On the side she writes fiction.
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