Doto cabecar

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Doto cabecar
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Heterobranchia
Order: Nudibranchia
Suborder: Cladobranchia
Family: Dotidae
Genus: Doto
Species:
D. cabecar
Binomial name
Doto cabecar
Ortea, 2001 [1]

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

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Distribution

This species was described from the Caribbean coast of Costa Rica. It has subsequently been reported from the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico. [2]

Description

This nudibranch is pale brown with yellow rhinophores and cerata. The ceratal tubercles bear dark spots, except for the terminal tubercle on each ceras, which has a concentration of internal white glands. [3] Further details of this species are given in Ortea & Caballer, 2003. [4]

The maximum recorded body length is 14 mm. [5]

Ecology

Minimum recorded depth is 20 m. [5] Maximum recorded depth is 20 m. [5]

Doto cabecar feeds on the hydroid, Thyroscyphus marginatus (family Sertulariidae).

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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. Doto cabecar account at INBio. Archived July 19, 2007, at the Wayback Machine Species of Costa Rica.
  4. Ortea, J. A., & M. Caballer. (2003) Nuevos caracteres anatómicos de Doto cabecar Ortea, 2001 (Mollusca: Nudibranchia). Avicennia, Revista de Oceanología, Ecología y Biodiversidad Tropical 16:107-112.
  5. 1 2 3 Welch J. J. (2010). "The “Island Rule” and Deep-Sea Gastropods: Re-Examining the Evidence". PLoS ONE 5(1): e8776. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0008776.