| Doto bella | |
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| Right side view of Doto bella | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Heterobranchia |
| Order: | Nudibranchia |
| Suborder: | Cladobranchia |
| Family: | Dotidae |
| Genus: | Doto |
| Species: | D. bella |
| Binomial name | |
| Doto bella | |
Doto bella is a species of sea slug, a nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Dotidae .
This species was described from the Izu Peninsula, Japan. It is widely distributed on the Pacific Ocean coasts of Japan and the Japan Sea coasts. A species from Indonesia has previously been identified as Doto bella but is now thought to be an undescribed species. [2] [3] [4]
This nudibranch is transparent white with a diffuse, sub-epidermal layer of black pigment which is faint in some specimens and very dense in others. The ceratal tubercles are slightly stalked with globular tips which have a large black spot which is partly obscured by white glands in the terminal tubercle. The digestive gland is usually yellow. The outer half of the rhinophores is black. [5]
Doto bella has been photographed on a colony of a hydroid, probably in the family Aglaopheniidae on which it presumably feeds. [6]
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