Triopha catalinae

Sea clown triopha
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Heterobranchia; clade Euthyneura; clade Nudipleura; clade Nudibranchia; clade Euctenidiacea; clade Doridacea
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 or sea clown, is a

mollusk in the taxonomic family Polyceridae

The species' Latin name is named after

Distribution

This species lives in the Western

Pacific from Alaska to Mexico, and has also been found in Japan and South Korea.^[1]^[2]

This nudibranch grazes on

^ 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.

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.