Doto varaderoensis
| Doto varaderoensis | |
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| Doto varaderoensis with spawn | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura |
| Superfamily: | Tritonioidea |
| Family: | Dotidae |
| Genus: | Doto |
| Species: | D. varaderoensis |
| Binomial name | |
| Doto varaderoensis Ortea, 2001[1] | |
Doto varaderoensis is a species of sea slug, a Dendronotid nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Dotidae.
Distribution
This species was described from Playa de Varadero, Cuba. It has also been reported from Puerto Rico [2] and Lake Worth Lagoon, Florida.
Description
The body of this dendronotid nudibranch is translucent brown in colour. The cerata have numerous tubercles which are swollen and globular in appearance.[3]
- Doto varaderoensis on hydroids, Lake Worth Lagoon, Florida
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Ecology
Doto varaderoensis was found associated with the hydroids Thyroscyphus sp. in the family Sertulariidae.
References
- ↑ Ortea J. (2001) El género Doto Oken, 1815 (Mollusca: Nudibranchia) en el mer Caribe: Historia natural y descripción de nuevas especies. Avicennia Suppl. 3 : 1-46. page(s): 21
- ↑ Valdés, Ángel; Hamann, Jeff; Behrens, David W.; DuPont, Anne. Caribbean Sea Slugs, Sea Challengers Natural History Books, Etc., Gig Harbor, Washington 2006, pp. 150-151. ISBN 0-9700574-2-3
- ↑ Rudman, W.B., 2009 (June 3) Doto varaderoensis Ortea, 2001. [In] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney.