Doto pita
| Doto pita | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura |
| Superfamily: | Tritonioidea |
| Family: | Dotidae |
| Genus: | Doto |
| Species: | D. pita |
| Binomial name | |
| Doto pita Marcus, 1955[1] | |
Doto pita is a species of sea slug, a small nudibranch, a shell-less marine gastropod mollusk in the family Dotidae.
Distribution
Doto pita occurs in the Caribbean Sea and tropical west Atlantic Ocean, from Brazil to Florida. Reports from Japan (Baba, 1971), and New Zealand (Morton and Millar, 1968), may be the result of accidental transport by human agency or simply misidentifications.
Description
The length of the animal is up to 12 mm. The body is translucent white with some brown spots at the bases of the cerata.[2] The digestive gland is cream and the cerata are rather irregular in appearance.[3]
References
- ↑ Marcus, Er. 1955. Opisthobranchia from Brazil. Boletim da Faculdade de Filosofia, Ciências e Letras, Universidade de São Paulo, Zoology, 207, 20:89-261, pls. 1-30.
- ↑ Rudman, W.B., 2002 (July 1) Doto pita Marcus, 1955. [In] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney.
- ↑ Alicia, photo on Flickr
- Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1
- R. F. Bolland, Japanese form on Okinawan Opisthobranchs
- Simon Franicevic, photo of New Zealand form on Flickr