Triopha modesta

Triopha modesta, commonly known as the modest clown dorid, is a colorful species of nudibranch sea slug. Modest clown dorids are a shellless marine, gastropod mollusk in the taxonomic family Polyceridae.^[2][3]

Triopha modesta
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Order:	Nudibranchia
Family:	Polyceridae
Genus:	Triopha
Species:	T. modesta
Binomial name
Triopha modesta Bergh (1880)[1]

Taxonomy

Considered as valid species by Martynov et al. (2015), misidentified previously as Triopha catalinae Cooper, 1863 (Martynov & Korshunova, 2011)^[4]

Range

Modest clown dorids range from the Sea of Japan to southern California.^{[citation needed]}