The predaceous aeolis (''Himatina trophina'') is a
species of
sea slug, an aeolid
nudibranch, a
marine
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heterobranch mollusc
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in the family
Flabellinidae.
[Picton, B. (2017)]
''Himatina trophina'' (Bergh, 1890).
In: MolluscaBase (2017). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species on 2018-01-14. This species was commonly known as ''Flabellina fusca'', a junior synonym.
Retrieved July 04, 2012
Distribution
This species is frequent in
British Columbia and extends around the North Pacific to
Alaska and the
Sea of Okhotsk
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,
Russia.
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Diet
''Himatina trophina'' mainly feeds on hydroids, it was also once believed to feed on tube worms
A tubeworm is any worm-like sessility (zoology), sessile invertebrate that anchors its tail to an underwater surface and secretes around its body a mineral tube, into which it can withdraw its entire body.
Tubeworms are found among the following t ...
but the species actually just preferred the hydroids which were growing on the outside of the tube worm.crustacea
Crustaceans (Crustacea, ) form a large, diverse arthropod taxon which includes such animals as decapods, seed shrimp, branchiopods, fish lice, krill, remipedes, isopods, barnacles, copepods, amphipods and mantis shrimp. The crustacean gro ...
and polychaete worms.[Rudman, W.B., 2003 (April 16]
''Flabellina trophina'' (Bergh, 1894).
n/nowiki> Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney.[Behrens, D.W. (2005)]
''Flabellina trophina''.
At: Miller, M. D. (2005). The Slug Site. Retrieved July 04, 2012
References
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Flabellinidae
Gastropods described in 1890