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Dirona picta

Dirona picta
Dirona picta from Santa Cruz, California 03.jpg
Dirona picta from Pillar Point, California
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Heterobranchia

clade Euthyneura
clade Nudipleura
clade Nudibranchia
clade Dexiarchia
clade Cladobranchia

Family: Dironidae
Genus: Dirona
Species: D. picta
Binomial name
D. picta
Volodchenko, 1941

clade Euthyneura
clade Nudipleura
clade Nudibranchia
clade Dexiarchia
clade Cladobranchia

Dirona picta, common name colorful dirona, is a species of sea slug, an Eastern Pacific Ocean nudibranch, a marine, opisthobranch gastropod mollusk in the family Dironidae.

This marine species occurs from Northern Oregon, USA to Baja California Sur, Mexico. Also reported from Japan.


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