Species profile
Colorful Dirona
Dirona picta
At a glance
Colorful Dirona (Dirona picta) is a sea slug present across the CatchRules coverage area but without species-specific bag, size, or season rules tracked in our regulatory dataset.
Confirmed by 2,850 research-grade iNaturalist observations, with California, Oregon, and British Columbia the top jurisdictions by observation count.
Notable details
- A Pacific nudibranch in the same genus as the White-lined Dirona but far more brilliantly colored.
- Found along rocky shores of the Pacific coast from British Columbia to Baja California.
- Like all nudibranchs, it is a simultaneous hermaphrodite, able to act as both sexes when mating.
- Feeds on small invertebrates such as bryozoans and hydroids found on rocky surfaces.
Where Colorful Dirona are seen
Background
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.
Background excerpt adapted from Wikipedia's Colorful Dirona article (CC BY-SA). Visit Wikipedia for the full entry.
Other sea slugs/nudibranchs on CatchRules
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