Doto alidrisi

Doto alidrisi
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. alidrisi
Binomial name
Doto alidrisi
Ortea, Moro & Ocaña, 2010[1]

Doto alidrisi is a species of sea slug, a Dendronotid nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Dotidae.[2]

Distribution

This species was described from Ceuta, an autonomous city of Spain on the north coast of Africa, at the entrance to the Mediterranean Sea.

Description

The body of this dendronotid nudibranch is mostly translucent white in colour, with fine mottling of black along the middle of the back and the sides of the body. The ceratal tubercles are unusually elongate with the terminal tubercle being one third of the length of the entire ceras.[3]

Ecology

The diet of Doto alidrisi is currently unknown.

References

  1. Ortea J., Moro L., Ocaña O. & Bacallado J.J., (2010) Contribución al estudio del género Doto Oken, 1815 (Mollusca: Nudibranchia) en Ceuta (España) con la descripción de nuevas especies. Revista de la Academia Canaria de Ciencias 21(3-4): 81-91 [issued september 2010], page(s): 84-86, 90.
  2. Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S. (2015). Doto alidrisi Ortea, Moro & Ocaña, 2010. In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species on 2015-12-28
  3. Trainito, E. & Doneddu, M., (2014) Nudibranchi del Mediterraneo. 2nd Edition. Il Castello. ISBN 9788865204801, 192 pages.
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