Doto varaderoensis

Doto varaderoensis
Doto varaderoensis with spawn
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. varaderoensis
Binomial name
Doto varaderoensis
Ortea, 2001[1]

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

Distribution

This species was described from Playa de Varadero, Cuba. It has also been reported from Puerto Rico [2] and Lake Worth Lagoon, Florida.

Description

The body of this dendronotid nudibranch is translucent brown in colour. The cerata have numerous tubercles which are swollen and globular in appearance.[3]

Ecology

Doto varaderoensis was found associated with the hydroids Thyroscyphus sp. in the family Sertulariidae.

References

  1. 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
  2. Valdés, Ángel; Hamann, Jeff; Behrens, David W.; DuPont, Anne. Caribbean Sea Slugs, Sea Challengers Natural History Books, Etc., Gig Harbor, Washington 2006, pp. 150-151. ISBN 0-9700574-2-3
  3. Rudman, W.B., 2009 (June 3) Doto varaderoensis Ortea, 2001. [In] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney.
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