Doto africoronata

Doto africoronata
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Heterobranchia

clade Euthyneura
clade Nudipleura
clade Nudibranchia
clade Dexiarchia
clade Cladobranchia
clade Dendronotida

Superfamily: Tritonioidea
Family: Dotidae
Genus: Doto
Species: D. africoronata
Binomial name
Doto africoronata
Shipman & Gosliner, 2015[1]
Synonyms
  • Doto coronata Gmelin, 1791 sensu Gosliner, 1987.[2]

Doto africoronata is a species of small sea slug or nudibranch, a shell-less marine gastropod mollusc in the family Dotidae. [3]

Distribution

This species is known from around the South African coast where it is found from the Atlantic coast to Knysna.[2][1] It is known from the intertidal to more than 25 m.

Description

This species is a small (up to 15 mm) nudibranch, with grape-bunch-like clusters of cerata extending in pairs along the sides of the body. In all Doto the rhinophores extend from cup-like sheaths. Doto africoronata is translucent white in colour with mottling of dark red on the back and sides of the body. The ceratal tubercles are tipped with round red spots.

References

  1. 1 2 Shipman, C. & Gosliner, T. (2015). Molecular and morphological systematics of Doto Oken, 1851 (Gastropoda: Heterobranchia), with descriptions of five new species and a new genus. Zootaxa 3973 (1) DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3973.1.2
  2. 1 2 Gosliner, Terrence. (1987) Nudibranchs of southern Africa: A guide to Opisthobranch molluscs of southern Africa Sea Challengers, as Doto coronata, page 106. Monterey. ISBN 0-930118-13-8
  3. ↑ Bouchet, P. (2015). Doto africoronata Shipman & Gosliner, 2015. In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species on 2015-11-28
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