Doto pita
| Doto pita | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura |
| Superfamily: | Tritonioidea |
| Family: | Dotidae |
| Genus: | Doto |
| Species: | D. pita |
| Binomial name | |
| Doto pita Er. Marcus, 1955[1] | |
Doto pita is a species of sea slug, a small nudibranch, a shell-less marine gastropod mollusc in the family Dotidae.[2]
Distribution
Doto pita occurs in the Caribbean Sea and tropical west Atlantic Ocean, from Brazil to Florida. Reports from Japan,[3][4][5] and New Zealand,[6] may be the result of accidental transport by human agency or simply misidentifications.[7][8]
Description
The length of the animal is up to 12 mm. The body is translucent white with some brown spots at the bases of the cerata.[9] The digestive gland is cream and the cerata are rather irregular in appearance.[10]
External links
- Burn R. (2006) A checklist and bibliography of the Opisthobranchia (Mollusca: Gastropoda) of Victoria and the Bass Strait area, south-eastern Australia. Museum Victoria Science Reports 10:1–42
- Gastropods.com: Doto pita
References
- ↑ Marcus, Er. (1955). Opisthobranchia from Brazil. Boletim da Faculdade de Filosofia, Ciências e Letras, Universidade de São Paulo, Zoology, 207, 20:89-261, pls. 1-30.
- ↑ Rosenberg, G. (2015). Doto pita Er. Marcus, 1955. In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species on 2016-01-26
- ↑ Baba, K. 1971. New record in Japan of Doto (Doto) pita Marcus, 1955, a nudibranch gastropod. Appendix: list of the Dotoidae from Japan. Collecting & Breeding [Saishu to Shiiku] 33(6):131-132 (in Japanese).
- ↑ Baba, K. 1971. Anatomical studies on three species of Doto (D. bella, D. japonica and D. pita) from Japan (Nudibranchia: Dendronotoidea: Dotoidae). Publications of the Seto Marine Biological Laboratory 19(2-3):73-79, pls. 4-5.
- ↑ Bolland, R.F. (2013). Japanese form on Okinawan Opisthobranchs.
- ↑ Morton, J. E., & Michael C. Miller. 1973. The New Zealand seashore, 653 pp. 2nd edition. Collins, London & Auckland.
- ↑ Powell A. W. B., (1979). New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand. ISBN 0-00-216906-1
- ↑ Franicevic, Simon (2011). Doto pita, photo of New Zealand form on Flickr
- ↑ Rudman, W.B., 2002 (July 1) Doto pita Marcus, 1955. [In] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney.
- ↑ Alicia, (2013) Doto pita Alicia, photo on Flickr
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