Catriona columbiana

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| image = Catriona columbiana from Santa Cruz, California.jpg

| image_caption = Santa Cruz, California

| genus = Catriona

| species = columbiana

| authority = (O'Donoghue, 1922)O'Donoghue, C.H. (1922). Notes on the Nudibranchiate Mollusca from the Vancouver Island Region. III. Records of species and distribution. Transactions of the Royal Canadian Institute, Toronto, 14(1): 145-167, pls.5-6.

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|Amphorina colombiana|O'Donoghue, 1922

|Tenellia columbiana|(O'Donoghue, 1922)

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Catriona columbiana, the British Columbia aeolid, is a species of sea slug, an aeolid nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Trinchesiidae.Gofas, S. (2016). [http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=890620 Tenellia columbiana (O'Donoghue, 1922).] In: MolluscaBase (2016). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species on 2016-12-23.

Distribution

This species was described from Gabriola Pass, Nanaimo, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada. has been recorded along the Eastern Pacific coastline of North America from Cutter Rock, Ketchikan, Alaska, to San Diego, California.McDonald, G. (2015). [http://people.ucsc.edu/~mcduck/DreamWeaver/Mollusca/Nudibranchs/Catriona_columbiana/Catriona_columbiana.html Catriona columbiana (O'Donoghue, 1922)] Intertidal Invertebrates of the Monterey Bay Area, California.Rudman, W.B., 2000 (June 11) [http://www.seaslugforum.net/factsheet/catrcolu Cuthona columbiana (O'Donoghue, 1922).] [In] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney.

Ecology

Catriona columbiana feeds on the athecate hydroids Tubularia and Syncoryne.

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Category:Trinchesiidae

Category:Gastropods described in 1922