| Doto pita | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Heterobranchia |
| Order: | Nudibranchia |
| Suborder: | Cladobranchia |
| Family: | Dotidae |
| Genus: | Doto |
| Species: | D. pita |
| Binomial name | |
| Doto pita Er. Marcus, 1955 [1] | |
Doto pita is a species of sea slug, a small nudibranch, a shell-less marine gastropod mollusc in the family Dotidae. [2]
Doto pita occurs in the Caribbean Sea and tropical west Atlantic Ocean, from Brazil to Florida. Reports from Japan, [3] [4] [5] and New Zealand, [6] may be the result of accidental transport by human agency or simply misidentifications. [7] [8]
The body is translucent white with some brown spots at the bases of the cerata. [9] The digestive gland is cream and the cerata are rather irregular in appearance. [10]
The maximum recorded body length is 7 mm. [11]
Minimum recorded depth is 0 m. [11] Maximum recorded depth is 25 m. [11]
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