Doto iugula

Doto iugula
Drawing from original description
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. iugula
Binomial name
Doto iugula
Ortea, 2001[1]

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

Distribution

This species was described from Manzanillo on the Caribbean coast of Costa Rica.

Description

This dendronotid nudibranch is very transparent, crystalline, with a medio-dorsal band of irregular orange spots. The cerata are transparent and the ceratal tubercles have no dark spots. The cerata have a conspicuous, orange, irregular patch near the apex. There are no pseudobranchs but just a few irregular tubercles on the inner faces of the cerata.[2]

Ecology

Doto iugula was not found associated with any food source.

References

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