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Armina californica (California armina)

Synonyms: Armina columbiana; Armina digueti; Armina vancouverensis; Pleurophyllidia californica; Pleurophyllidia vancouverensis

Wikipedia Abstract

Armina californica is a species of sea slug, a nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Arminidae. This species occurs in the Eastern Pacific Ocean from Vancouver Island to Panama.
View Wikipedia Record: Armina californica

Prey / Diet

Ptilosarcus gurneyi (Gurney's sea pen)[1]
Renilla koellikeri (Sea pansy)[2]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Competing SpeciesCommon Prey Count
Hermissenda crassicornis (hermissenda)1
Tritonia festiva (diamondback tritonia)1

Predators

Crossaster papposus (spiny sun star, common sun star)[2]
Hippasteria phrygiana (Horse sea 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