| Roboastra tigris | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura |
| Superfamily: | Polyceroidea |
| Family: | Polyceridae |
| Subfamily: | Nembrothinae |
| Genus: | Roboastra |
| Species: | R. tigris |
| Binomial name | |
| Roboastra tigris Farmer, 1978[1] |
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Roboastra tigris is a species of sea slug, a dorid nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Polyceridae.[2]
This species is found in the Gulf of California.
Roboastra tigris can grow as large as 30 cm in length. Like other nudibranchs in the genus Roboastra it is carnivorous and predatory, feeding on other seaslugs.