Sea clown triopha facts for kids
Quick facts for kids Sea clown triopha |
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clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura clade Nudipleura clade Nudibranchia clade Euctenidiacea clade Doridacea |
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Polyceroidea
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Triopha
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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
This species lives in the Eastern Pacific from Alaska to Mexico, and has also been found in Japan and South Korea.
Life habits
This nudibranch grazes on bryozoans.
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Triopha catalinae
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Triopha catalinae on red coralline algae in a tide pool in Central California
- 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. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/47219#page/163/mode/1up.
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