k Sea butterfly Sea butterfly Limacina helicina. Sea butterflies are swimming predatory marine sea snails. They have two winglike outgrowths parapodia, lower right derived from their foot, which they continually flap to swim through the water. They use a mucous web to trap small aquatic organisms such as crustaceans and plankton. Editorial Stock Photo - Afloimages
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Sea butterfly Sea butterfly  Limacina helicina . Sea butterflies are swimming predatory marine sea snails. They have two wing like outgrowths  parapodia, lower right  derived from their foot, which they continually flap to swim through the water. They use a mucous web to trap small aquatic organisms such as crustaceans and plankton.
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Sea butterfly

Sea butterfly (Limacina helicina). Sea butterflies are swimming predatory marine sea snails. They have two wing-like outgrowths (parapodia, lower right) derived from their foot, which they continually flap to swim through the water. They use a mucous web to trap small aquatic organisms such as crustaceans and plankton.

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11-06-2012

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