Doto caballa

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Doto caballa
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. caballa
Binomial name
Doto caballa
Ortea, Moro & Bacallado, 2010 [1]

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

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Distribution

This species was described from Ceuta, an autonomous city of Spain on the north coast of Africa, and Albufeira on the south coast of Portugal, both localities at the entrance to the Mediterranean Sea.

Description

The body of this dendronotid nudibranch is mostly translucent white in colour, with dense spots and dots of black along the middle of the back and more widely spaced spots on the sides of the body. The ceratal tubercles are short and usually have black spots at the tips [2]

Ecology

The diet of Doto caballa is currently unknown.

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References

  1. ↑ Ortea J., Moro L., Ocaña O. & Bacallado J.J., 2010. Contribución al estudio del género Doto Oken, 1815 (Mollusca: Nudibranchia) en Ceuta (España) con la descripción de nuevas especies. Archived October 17, 2014, at the Wayback Machine Revista de la Academia Canaria de Ciencias 21(3-4): 81-91 [issued september 2010], page(s): 84-86, 90.
  2. ↑ Trainito, E. & Doneddu, M., 2014. Nudibranchi del Mediterraneo. 2nd Edition. Il Castello. ISBN   9788865204801, 192 pages.
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