Doto cabecar | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Heterobranchia |
Order: | Nudibranchia |
Suborder: | Cladobranchia |
Family: | Dotidae |
Genus: | Doto |
Species: | D. cabecar
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Binomial name | |
Doto cabecar Ortea, 2001
[1]
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Doto cabecar is a species of sea slug, a nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Dotidae.
This species was described from the Caribbean coast of Costa Rica. It has subsequently been reported from the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico. [2]
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]
Minimum recorded depth is 20 m. [5] Maximum recorded depth is 20 m. [5]
Doto cabecar feeds on the hydroid, Thyroscyphus marginatus (family Sertulariidae).
Doto cabecar | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Heterobranchia |
Order: | Nudibranchia |
Suborder: | Cladobranchia |
Family: | Dotidae |
Genus: | Doto |
Species: | D. cabecar
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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.
This species was described from the Caribbean coast of Costa Rica. It has subsequently been reported from the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico. [2]
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]
Minimum recorded depth is 20 m. [5] Maximum recorded depth is 20 m. [5]
Doto cabecar feeds on the hydroid, Thyroscyphus marginatus (family Sertulariidae).