Dirona picta MacFarland, 1905 is a animal in the Dironidae family, order Nudibranchia, kingdom Animalia. Not known to be toxic.

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Dirona picta MacFarland, 1905

Dirona picta MacFarland, 1905

Dirona picta, the colorful dirona, is a nudibranch sea slug found in the Eastern Pacific and reported from Japan.

Family
Genus
Dirona
Order
Nudibranchia
Class
Gastropoda

About Dirona picta MacFarland, 1905

Dirona picta MacFarland, 1905, commonly known as the colorful dirona, is a species of sea slug. It is an Eastern Pacific Ocean nudibranch, which is a marine opisthobranch gastropod mollusk belonging to the family Dironidae. This marine species is distributed from Northern Oregon, USA to Baja California Sur, Mexico, and has also been reported from Japan.

Photo: (c) Ken-ichi Ueda, some rights reserved (CC BY) · cc-by

Taxonomy

Animalia Mollusca Gastropoda Nudibranchia Dironidae Dirona

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Sources: GBIF, iNaturalist, Wikipedia, NCBI Taxonomy · Disclaimer

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