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Doto duao

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

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

Distribution

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This species was described from the Caribbean coast of Costa Rica.

Description

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This nudibranch is translucent white with fine brown spotting on the top and sides of the body and clear patches around the bases of the cerata. The cerata have a blue iridescence and the tubercles have internal blue spots. There is always a crescent-shaped red spot on the inner base of the peduncle at the insertion of cerata into the body.[2]

The maximum recorded body length is 6 mm.[3]

Ecology

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Minimum recorded depth is 10 m.[3] Maximum recorded depth is 19 m.[3]

Doto duao was found associated with small hydroids of the family Sertulariidae; these are probably its prey.

References

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  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. ^ Doto duao account at INBio. Species of Costa Rica Archived July 19, 2007, at the Wayback Machine
  3. ^ 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.