The California Sea Hare

Professor Blake Barron from Santa Barbara City College explains a few facts about the California Sea Hare during a field trip to some local tidepools with the Biology Club.

The footage here is from a dive I did at Refugio State Beach. I came across this guy being tossed around in the mild surge that day.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• California
• Sea
• Hare
• Refugio
• Aplysia
• californica

[sepdet13]

Useful video-- good info and better quality than my own footage (lousy digital camera) I've linked to it from my webpage on sea hares, thank you!

[Scubaman5000]

Glad you enjoyed the video and please feel free to link to any of my videos as much as you like. I have some additional video that I have yet to edit showing a group of sea hares mating. Really neat showing the big pile they all get into and the spaghetti-like eggs... well it's neat if you're into biology like me.

[deadalive85]

Saw two of these last year here in SD. Really neat creatures. Thanks for posting.

[cowkid57]

is it normal to find one of these guys cruising around in the Caymen islands, i am almost certain i saw one on my last visit.

[TheCapodetutticapi]

Perhaps the most disgusting creature I have ever seen...interesting though.

[bapyou]

Nice. I thought sea hares were nudibranchs. I stand corrected. Thanks for the information. I have some footage of a sea hare in a tide pool on my video 'tide pools and sea caves | Leo Carillo Beach | 20 May 2009,' though it's not as good as this footage.

[Cnidarious]

lovely.

[GangstaElves]

I have a spotted sea hare. It's not a california sea hair it is spotted from St. Thomas where I found it and it's current home. ^o^