Doto escatllari

Doto escatllari
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. escatllari
Binomial name
Doto escatllari
Ortea, Moro & Espinosa, 1998[1]

Doto escatllari is a species of sea slug, a Dendronotid nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Dotidae.

Distribution

This species was first described from the Canary Islands. It has subsequently been reported from the Caribbean coast of Costa Rica [2] and Barbados [3]

Description

This dendronotid nudibranch is translucent white with mid-sized black spots scattered over the top and sides of the body. The cerata are translucent blue, and the ceratal tubercles have no dark spots and contain dense concentrations of rounded hyaline glandular structures. In the internal base of the ceratal peduncle there is a black mark below the three-lobed transparent pseudobranch.[4]

Ecology

Doto escatllari was found associated with small hydroids of the family Sertulariidae; these are probably its prey.

References

  1. El género Doto Oken, 1815 (Mollusca, Nudibranchia) en las Islas Canarias y de Cabo Verde. Avicennia 6/7: 125-136
  2. 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
  3. Valdés, Ángel; Hamann, Jeff; Behrens, David W.; DuPont, Anne. Caribbean Sea Slugs, Sea Challengers Natural History Books, Etc., Gig Harbor, Washington 2006, pp. 216-217. ISBN 0-9700574-2-3
  4. Doto escatllari account at INBio. Species of Costa Rica
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