Triopha catalinae
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(unranked): | clade Heterobranchia
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Species: | T. catalinae
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Triopha catalinae (Cooper, 1863)
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Triopha catalinae, commonly known as the sea clown triopha or sea clown, is a species of colorful sea slug called a nudibranch. Sea clowns are a shell-less marine, gastronomic mollusk in the taxonomic family Polyceridae.
The species' Latin name is named after Santa Catalina Island, California.
Distribution[edit]
This species lives in the Western Pacific from Alaska to Mexico, and has also been found in Japan and South Korea.[1][2]
Life habits[edit]
This nudibranch grazes on bryozoans.[2]
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Triopha catalinae
References[edit]
- ^ Berhrens, D. W., 1980, Pacific Coast Nudibranchs: A guide to the opisthobranchs of the northeastern Pacific, Sea Challenger Books, Washington.
- ^ a b Triopha catalinae (Cooper, 1863) Archived 16 October 2007 at the Wayback Machine Sea Slug Forum, accessed 17 July 2009.
External links[edit]
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- SEM images of the radula can be found at Thompson, T.E.; Bebbington, A. (1973). "Scanning electron microscope studies of gastropod radulae". Malacologia. 14: 147–165.