Triopha catalinae
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| 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) | |
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.
Distribution
This species lives in the Eastern Pacific from Alaska to Mexico, and has also been found in Japan and South Korea.[1][2]
Life habits
This nudibranch grazes on bryozoans.[2]
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Triopha catalinae
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Triopha catalinae on red coralline algae in a tide pool in Central California
References
- ↑ Berhrens, D. W., 1980, Pacific Coast Nudibranchs: A guide to the opisthobranchs of the northeastern Pacific, Sea Challenger Books, Washington.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Triopha catalinae (Cooper, 1863) Sea Slug Forum, accessed 17 July 2009.
External links
- SEM images of its radula can be found at Thompson; Bebbington (1973). Malacologia 14: 147–165..
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