I just wanted to post this to the list.  It is quite fascinating:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20100112/sc_livescience/surprisingseaslugishalfplanthalfanimal

So not only do nudibranchs steal nematocysts cells to protect them from
their last meal to protect them from predators, now we see that at least one
species is truly photosynthetic? Pretty neat.

Doug

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