Feeding Habits
Like all Aplysia species, the California sea hare is herbivorous. Its diet consists primarily of red algae like Laurencia pacifica, Plocamium pacificum, and Ceramium eatonianum, which gives the animal its typically reddish or pinkish coloration. Thus Aplysia resembles the food it grazes on and cannot be distinguished easily from the seaweed unless the animal is moving.
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