Twitter goes wild for adorable sea slugs

Cuddly, fluffy, and downright adorable are not words normally attributed to a slug – but a quick scroll through the right Twitter feed may prove otherwise.

The Twittersphere is rife with photos, links, and cooing comments all relating to the Jorunna parva, a sea slug with a striking resemblance to a fluffy rabbit.

According to Bored Panda, the sea slug’s tiny ears are rhinophores, which are organs that allow the creatures to taste and smell chemicals in the water and help them move across the ocean floor.

Native to Japan and the Phillipines, the sea bunny is reported to be only about two centimetres long and widely varies in colour.

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The Japanese name for the Jorunna parva is gomafu biroodo umiushi, which translates roughly to “black speckled velvet sea slug,” reports RocketNews24. To make things even cuter, divers in the Pacific have taken to calling the tiny creatures goma-chan, meaning “miss sesame.”