Diamondback tritonia
| Diamondback tritonia | |
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| A live individual of Tritonia festiva in situ, head end towards the right | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Tritonioidea |
| Family: | Tritoniidae |
| Genus: | Tritonia |
| Species: | T. festiva |
| Binomial name | |
| Tritonia festiva (Stearns, 1873) | |
The diamondback tritonia, Tritonia festiva, is a species of nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Tritoniidae.[1] It is an opportunistic predator of other marine invertebrates.[2]
References
Tritonia festiva, offshore Santa Cruz Island, Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary
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