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Doto varaderoensis

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Doto varaderoensis
Doto varaderoensis with spawn
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Nudibranchia
Suborder: Cladobranchia
Family: Dotidae
Genus: Doto
Species:
D. varaderoensis
Binomial name
Doto varaderoensis
Ortea, 2001[1]

Doto varaderoensis is a species of sea slug, a nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Dotidae.

Distribution

This species was described from Playa de Varadero, Cuba. It has also been reported from Puerto Rico[2] and Lake Worth Lagoon, Florida.

Description

The body of this nudibranch is translucent brown in colour. The cerata have numerous tubercles which are swollen and globular in appearance.[3]

The maximum recorded body length is 10 mm.[4]

Ecology

Minimum recorded depth is 1 m.[4] Maximum recorded depth is 5 m.[4]

Doto varaderoensis was found associated with the hydroids Thyroscyphus sp. in the family Sertulariidae.

Doto varaderoensis on hydroids.
Doto varaderoensis on hydroids.

References

  1. ^ Ortea J. (2001) El género Doto Oken, 1815 (Mollusca: Nudibranchia) en el mer Caribe: Historia natural y descripción de nuevas especies. Avicennia Suppl. 3 : 1-46. page(s): 21
  2. ^ Valdés, Ángel; Hamann, Jeff; Behrens, David W.; DuPont, Anne. Caribbean Sea Slugs, Sea Challengers Natural History Books, Etc., Gig Harbor, Washington 2006, pp. 150-151. ISBN 0-9700574-2-3
  3. ^ Rudman, W.B., 2009 (June 3) Doto varaderoensis Ortea, 2001. [In] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney.
  4. ^ a b c Welch J. J. (2010). "The “Island Rule” and Deep-Sea Gastropods: Re-Examining the Evidence". PLoS ONE 5(1): e8776. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0008776.