Despite their appearance, these are not true sea slugs or “nudibranchs” and are instead in a family called sacoglossans. Sacoglossan means sap-sucker, which is an apt name as they employ something called kleptoplasty in order to steal and uptake the chloroplasts from algae to photosynthesize, creating their own food! Sacoglossans can be found all across the oceans, but due to their propensity for photosynthesis, they are usually found in shallower water among kelp, algae, or coral reefs. Elysia