Doto cabecar
| Doto cabecar | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura |
| Superfamily: | Tritonioidea |
| Family: | Dotidae |
| Genus: | Doto |
| Species: | D. cabecar |
| Binomial name | |
| Doto cabecar Ortea, 2001[1] | |
Doto cabecar is a species of sea slug, a Dendronotid nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Dotidae.
Distribution
This species was described from the Caribbean coast of Costa Rica. It has subsequently been reported from the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico. [2]
Description
This dendronotid nudibranch is pale brown with yellow rhinophores and cerata. The ceratal tubercles bear dark spots, except for the terminal tubercle on each ceras, which has a concentration of internal white glands.[3] Further details of this species are given in Ortea & Caballer, 2003.[4]
Ecology
Doto cabecar feeds on the hydroid, Thyroscyphus marginatus (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
- ↑ Doto cabecar account at INBio. Species of Costa Rica.
- ↑ Ortea, J. A., & M. Caballer. (2003) Nuevos caracteres anatómicos de Doto cabecar Ortea, 2001 (Mollusca: Nudibranchia). Avicennia, Revista de Oceanología, Ecología y Biodiversidad Tropical 16:107-112.
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