Doto duao
| Doto duao | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Nudibranchia |
| Suborder: | Cladobranchia |
| Family: | Dotidae |
| Genus: | Doto |
| Species: | D. duao
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| Binomial name | |
| Doto duao Ortea, 2001[1]
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Doto duao is a species of sea slug, a nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Dotidae.
Distribution
[edit]This species was described from the Caribbean coast of Costa Rica.
Description
[edit]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
[edit]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
[edit]- ^ 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
- ^ Doto duao account at INBio. Species of Costa Rica Archived July 19, 2007, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ 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.