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Tritonia festiva (diamondback tritonia)

Synonyms: Lateribranchiaea festiva; Sphaerostoma undulata; Tritonia reticulata

Wikipedia Abstract

The diamondback tritonia, Tritonia festiva, is a species of nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Tritoniidae. It is an opportunistic predator of other marine invertebrates.
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Prey / Diet

Ptilosarcus gurneyi (Gurney's sea pen)[1]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Competing SpeciesCommon Prey Count
Armina californica (California armina)1
Hermissenda crassicornis (hermissenda)1

Predators

Crossaster papposus (spiny sun star, common sun star)[2]
Mediaster aequalis (Vermillion sea star)[2]

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Interactions between a sea pen and seven of its predators, Charles Birkeland, Ecological Monographs (1974) 44:211-232
♦ 2Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0