| feathered doto | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura |
| Superfamily: | Tritonioidea |
| Family: | Dotidae |
| Genus: | Doto |
| Species: | D. pinnatifida |
| Binomial name | |
| Doto pinnatifida (Montagu, 1804) |
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| Synonyms | |
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Tritonia pinnatifida |
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The feathered doto, Doto pinnatifida, is a species of dendronotid nudibranch, and is found off South Africa, the United Kingdom and France. It is a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Dotidae.
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This species is found in the north Atlantic Ocean off the United Kingdom and France. Around the South African coast it is found from the Atlantic coast to Knysna. It is known from the intertidal to 30 m.[1]
The feathered doto is a small (up to 30mm) pale-bodied nudibranch, with darkly mottled nodular clusters of cerata extending in pairs down the body. The rhinophores extend from cup-like sheaths.[2] May be confused with the crowned doto, Doto coronata, but the cerata of this species are more elongated and less grape-bunch-like than those of the crowned doto.
The feathered doto feeds on hydroids. Small coiled white egg masses are often laid on hydroids.