Doto orcha

Doto orcha
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. orcha
Binomial name
Doto orcha
Yonow, 2000[1]

Doto orcha 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 Gulf of Aquaba, Red Sea.[2]

Description

This dendronotid nudibranch is very elongate with paired cerata which are widely spaced down the length of the body.[3]

Ecology

Doto orcha feeds on the hydroid Dynamena disticha.

References

  1. Yonow, N., 2000. Red Sea Opisthobranchia 4: The orders Cephalaspidea, Anaspidea, Notaspidea and Nudibranchia: Dendronotacea and Aeolidacea. Fauna of Arabia, 18: 87-131.
  2. Doto orcha [in] Opisthobranchs of Eilat
  3. Yonow, N., 2008. Sea Slugs of the Red Sea. Pensoft Series Faunistica, Volume 74. Sofia (Bulgaria) : Pensoft Publishers, p.234.
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