| Triopha catalinae | |
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| Triopha catalinae | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura |
| Superfamily: | Polyceroidea |
| Family: | Polyceridae |
| Subfamily: | Triophinae |
| Genus: | Triopha |
| Species: | T. catalinae |
| Binomial name | |
| Triopha catalinae (Cooper, 1863) |
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Triopha catalinae, commonly known as the sea clown Triopha, is a species of colorful sea slug, a nudibranch, a shell-less marine gastropod mollusk in the family Polyceridae.
The species is named after Santa Catalina Island, California.
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This species lives in the Eastern Pacific from Alaska to Mexico, and has also been found in Japan and South Korea.[1][2]
This nudibranch grazes on bryozoans.[2]