Doto tuberculata

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Doto tuberculata
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The nudibranch Doto tuberculata, Firth of Lorne, Scotland
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Heterobranchia
Order: Nudibranchia
Suborder: Cladobranchia
Family: Dotidae
Genus: Doto
Species:
D. tuberculata
Binomial name
Doto tuberculata
Lemche, 1976 [1]

Doto tuberculata is a species of sea slug, a nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Dotidae . [2]

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Distribution

The holotype for this species was collected in Killary Harbour, Ireland. The original description also cites specimens from the Mewstone and near the Eddystone Rocks, Plymouth, England, and Skird Rocks, Galway Bay. It has subsequently been reported widely in Britain and Ireland.

Description

This nudibranch is pale brown with black spots on the ceratal tubercles. There are rows of tubercles tipped with black spots running across the body between the cerata; typically four tubercles in a row. [3]

Ecology

Doto tuberculata feeds on the hydroid Sertularella gayi, family Sertulariidae.

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References

  1. Lemche H. (1976). New British species of Doto Oken, 1815. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, 56: 691-706
  2. Gofas, S. (2015). Doto tuberculata Lemche, 1976. In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species on 2015-12-28
  3. Picton, B.E. & Morrow, C.C. (2015). Doto tuberculata Lemche, 1976. [In] Encyclopedia of Marine Life of Britain and Ireland. Accessed on 2015-12-28