| Doto amyra | |
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| Doto amyra | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura |
| Superfamily: | Tritonioidea |
| Family: | Dotidae |
| Genus: | Doto |
| Species: | D. amyra |
| Binomial name | |
| Doto amyra Marcus, 1961 |
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Doto amyra, or the hammerhead doto, is a species of very small or minute sea slug, a dendronotacean nudibranch, a shell-less marine gastropod mollusk in the family Dotidae.
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This species occurs from Alaska to Baja California, Mexico.
This nudibranch reaches a maximum size of 14 mm, but commonly it is under 10 mm in adult size.
The body is colorless, but the cerata are colored due to the digestive glands inside them. The color of the digestive gland can be creamy yellow to orange-red to brown, depending on the color of the hydroids that an individual specimen has been eating.
This nudibranch feeds on hydroids.