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Biology/Natural History: Feeds on the bryozoan Eurystomella bilabiata, which is also a rosy color. Lays eggs in a narrow rose-colored ribbon spiraled counterclockwise. The nudibranch Navanax inermis eats this species. There are no digestive diverticula in the cerata-like growths. Named after Timothy Hopkins, a railroad executive who helped establish Hopkins Marine Station.

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Source: Invertebrates of the Salish Sea

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