| Doto hystrix | |
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| The nudibranch Doto hystrix, Firth of Lorne, Scotland. | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Heterobranchia |
| Order: | Nudibranchia |
| Suborder: | Cladobranchia |
| Family: | Dotidae |
| Genus: | Doto |
| Species: | D. hystrix |
| Binomial name | |
| Doto hystrix Picton & Brown, 1981 [1] | |
Doto hystrix is a species of sea slug, a nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Dotidae .
This species was first described from Sherkin Island, Ireland. Additional specimens from the Scilly Isles were included in the original description. It has subsequently been reported widely in Britain and Ireland, usually from water deeper than 20 metres.
This nudibranch is uniformly brown in colour with diffuse paler markings. [2]
Doto hystrix feeds on the hydroid Schizotricha frutescens, family Halopterididae.
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Doto onusta is a species of sea slug, a nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Dotidae.
Doto fragilis is a species of sea slug, a nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Dotidae.
Doto dunnei is a species of sea slug, a nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Dotidae.
Doto eireana is a species of sea slug, a nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Dotidae.
Doto tuberculata is a species of sea slug, a nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Dotidae.
Doto maculata is a species of sea slug, a nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Dotidae.
Doto koenneckeri is a species of sea slug, a nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Dotidae.
Doto lemchei is a species of sea slug, a nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Dotidae.
Doto sarsiae is a species of sea slug, a nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Dotidae.
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Rubramoena rubescens is a species of sea slug, an aeolid nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Fionidae.
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