Doto lemchei

Doto lemchei
	The nudibranch Doto lemchei, Skomer Island, Pembrokeshire, Wales.
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Heterobranchia; clade Euthyneura; clade Nudipleura; clade Nudibranchia; clade Dexiarchia; clade Cladobranchia; clade Dendronotida
Superfamily:	Tritonioidea
Family:	Dotidae
Genus:	Doto
Species:	D. lemchei
Binomial name
	Doto lemchei; Ortea & Urgorri, 1978

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

Distribution

This species was first described from Galicia, Spain. It was subsequently reported from Britain and Ireland.^[2]

Description

This dendronotid nudibranch is olive brown in colour with no dark spots on the ceratal tubercles. The tips of the tubercles appear pale or white due to white, internal, glandular cells.^[3]

Ecology

Doto lemchei feeds on the hydroid Aglaophenia tuberculata, family Aglaopheniidae.

References

^ Ortea J. & Urgorri V. (1978). El género Doto Oken, 1815 en el Norte y Noroeste de Espana. Boletín de la Estación Central de Ecología ICONA 7 (14): 73-92
^ Picton B.E. & Brown G.H. (1981). Four Nudibranch Gastropods new to the fauna of Great Britain and Ireland including a description of a new species of Doto Oken. Irish Naturalist's Journal 20(7): 261-268
^ Picton, B.E. & Morrow, C.C., 2010. [In] Encyclopedia of Marine Life of Britain and Ireland

[OU-1] Ortea J. & Urgorri V. (1978). El género Doto Oken, 1815 en el Norte y Noroeste de Espana. Boletín de la Estación Central de Ecología ICONA 7 (14): 73-92

[PB-2] Picton B.E. & Brown G.H. (1981). Four Nudibranch Gastropods new to the fauna of Great Britain and Ireland including a description of a new species of Doto Oken. Irish Naturalist's Journal 20(7): 261-268

[3] Picton, B.E. & Morrow, C.C., 2010. [In] Encyclopedia of Marine Life of Britain and Ireland

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