Could it be stomatella snail ?

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I been ordered ~2 months ago about 5 stomatella snails from a "local" LFS. One of them was way bigger than the others.
Today morning I found it glass. Can you please confirm that this is a stomatella snail? Pictures attached but not the best quality...Will try to catch another one :)
Thanks in advance!

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Are yours also so huge?
Larger ones are about 1.5 inches but when the lights go out I’ve counted upwards of 40+ recently ranging from about a millimeter all the way to the larger for 2 or 3
 
new pics attached, I think we were wrong... could be sea hare ? Dolabella auricularia
 

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new pics attached, I think we were wrong... could be sea hare ? Dolabella auricularia
Definitely not a Stomatella. I would also say it's some sea hare, but I unfortunately cannot tell you the species.
 
new pics attached, I think we were wrong... could be sea hare ? Dolabella auricularia
Definitely a sea hare; not Dolabella auricularia - those have a distinctive, semi-circle shaped tail part (the pics in the link below are helpful for showing what I'm talking about):
https://www.seaslugforum.net/find/dolaauriI'm fairly certain this is a Dolabrifera species, but telling them apart without examining their shells and male reproductive organs is very tentative.* I would guess D. edmundsi based on coloration and shape, but I can't say for sure.

*Source:
https://www.researchgate.net/public...lusca_Gastropoda_Heterobranchia_Aplysiomorpha
 

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