Doto fragilis
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| The nudibranch Doto fragilis, Pembrokeshire, Wales, UK. | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura |
| Superfamily: | Tritonioidea |
| Family: | Dotidae |
| Genus: | Doto |
| Species: | D. fragilis |
| Binomial name | |
| Doto fragilis Forbes, 1838[1] | |
Doto fragilis is a species of sea slug, a Dendronotid nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Dotidae.
Distribution
This species was first described from the Isle of Man, Irish Sea, United Kingdom. It has subsequently been reported from all around Britain and Ireland and continental coasts south to Portugal and into the Mediterranean Sea. [2]
Description
The body of this dendronotid nudibranch is predominantly brown in colour. There is a series of pale patches along the sides of the body.[3]
Ecology
Doto fragilis feeds on the hydroids Nemertesia antennina and Nemertesia ramosa, family Plumulariidae.
References
- ↑ Forbes, E. 1838. Malacologia Monensis: a catalogue of the Mollusca inhabiting the Isle of Man and the neighbouring sea. Edinburgh: J. Carfrae and son pp. XII + 63 + 3 pl.
- ↑ Rudman, W.B., 1999 (August 29) Doto fragilis (Forbes, 1838). [In] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney.
- ↑ Picton, B.E. & Morrow, C.C., 2010. [In] Encyclopedia of Marine Life of Britain and Ireland
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