Doto iugula
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| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura |
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| Species: | D. iugula
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| Doto iugula Ortea, 2001[1]
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Doto iugula is a species of sea slug, a Dendronotid nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Dotidae.
Distribution
This species was described from Manzanillo on the Caribbean coast of Costa Rica.
Description
This dendronotid nudibranch is very transparent, crystalline, with a medio-dorsal band of irregular orange spots. The cerata are transparent and the ceratal tubercles have no dark spots. The cerata have a conspicuous, orange, irregular patch near the apex. There are no pseudobranchs but just a few irregular tubercles on the inner faces of the cerata.[2]
Ecology
Doto iugula was not found associated with any food source.
References
- ^ 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 iugula account at INBio. Species of Costa Rica Archived September 24, 2014, at the Wayback Machine