Doto ussi

Doto ussi
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. ussi
Binomial name
Doto ussi
Ortea, 1982[1]

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

Distribution

This species was described from the Comoros Islands, in the Indian Ocean. It has subsequently been reported from the Philippines and Indonesia.

Description

This dendronotid nudibranch is mostly uniform yellow to pale olive-brown in colour. The ceratal tubercles are large and globular and completely obscure the back when the animal is at rest.[2]

Ecology

Doto ussi is found on colonies of the stinging hydroid, Aglaophenia cupressina (family Aglaopheniidae), on which it presumably feeds.[3] Many other species of Doto also feed on hydroids of the family Aglaopheniidae and the other families in the superfamily Plumularioidea.

References

  1. A new species of Doto (Mollusca, Dendronotacea) from the Comores Islands. Ortea J., Cah. Biol. Mar. (1982) 23 : 1 - 7.
  2. Rudman, W.B., 2003 (June 29) Doto ussi Ortea, 1982. [In] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney.
  3. Doto ussi, photo by Hung Chi-Feng on Flickr
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