Varicose wart slug
The varicose wart slug is a large sea slug, a type of shell-less sea snail that lives in warm seas. It is found across the Indo-West Pacific, including the central Pacific and the Red Sea. Its bright colours warn predators that it is toxic.1

Engeri y'okukitegeera
- A large sea slug, growing to at least 11.5 cm1
- Has 3 to 6 long ridges along its back, covered in small bumps called tubercles1
- The ridges and bases of the bumps are blue-grey1
- The tips of the bumps are capped in yellow1
- The sole of its foot has a black stripe running along its length1
Kitera okutabulwa ne: Juveniles of the sea cucumber Pearsonothuria graeffei closely resemble this sea slug. They are white and blue or black, with a few large, yellow, thorn-like projections. Adult sea cucumbers are much duller in colour and much larger than the sea slug.1
Amaanyi g'obutwa
Olususu lwakyo lwa butwa. Kya kabi okukwatako, okukomba oba okulya.
Kirina akabi kenkana wa eri abantu?
Akabi eri abantu: KitonoNga okubojja kw'enjuki oba okutono okusingawo. Kumpi tekirina kabi eri abantu.Kikola ki nga kitidde?
Its bright colours warn predators that it is toxic.1
Omuntu bw'aba nga akikutteko oba akiridde
- Omuntu bw'aba nga akiridde oba alina obubonero oluvannyuma lw'okukirya: kuba amangu ddala ennamba y'ebigwa bitalaze oba ekifo ekikola ku butwa (poison centre).
Bulijjo sooka kuba ennamba y'ebigwa bitalaze (112, 000, 911). Buno bulagirizi bwa bujjanjabi obusooka obwa bulijjo, si kuwabula kwa musawo. Obujjanjabi obusooka obw'omusingi
Weekuume
- Tokwatako, tokwata wadde okusoomooza ensolo ey'omu nsiko, ne bw'eba ntono, era ne bw'eba erabika nga yeebase oba nga efudde.
- Gireke n'ebbanga. Bw'osisinkana emu, beera mukkakkamu, dda emabega mpola era gireke egende mu kkubo lyayo.
- Bw'oba okikutteko oba okiridde: tokolokota maaso go wadde akamwa, naaza engalo zo era funa obuyambi bw'abasawo.
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kiwanvu nga bbulooka 4 ez'okuzannyisa mu lunyiririVaricose wart slug kinene kyenkana wa bw'ogeraageranya ne GGWE?
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Ebituufu
A sea cucumber, Pearsonothuria graeffei, copies its colours as a juvenile, which helps protect the sea cucumber too.1
Its bright colours warn predators that it is toxic to eat.1
The adult sea cucumber that copies this slug has its own toxic chemicals.1
It is one of the larger species in its group, growing to at least 11.5 cm.1
Ku bakugu mu busagwa
- Erinnya erya ssaayansi
- Phyllidia varicosa
- Ekibinja
- Ensolo endala ez'obutwa
- Amaka
- Phyllidiidae2
- Ensengeka
- Nudibranchia
- Ssemazinga
- Oseyani ya Pasifiki, Oseyani y'e Buyindi, Ennyanja Emmyufu, Ennyanja ya Korali, Ennyanja ya Bufilipino, Ennyanja ya Timor ne Arafura, Ekikono kya Bengal, Oseyani
- Akabi eri abantu
- 1 / 5: Kitono3
Ebituufu we biva
- Phyllidia varicosa (Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0))
- Phyllidia varicosa (iNaturalist): amannya n'ensengeka y'ebika.
- Venom Wiki: omutendera gw'akabi, obunene obwa bulijjo n'okuteebereza kw'embiro bibyaffe. Laba engeri gye tubibalamu: Engeri gye tupimamu akabi.
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