Doto escatllari | |
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Dorsal view of Doto escatllari on substrate | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Heterobranchia |
Order: | Nudibranchia |
Suborder: | Cladobranchia |
Family: | Dotidae |
Genus: | Doto |
Species: | D. escatllari
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Binomial name | |
Doto escatllari Ortea, Moro & Espinosa, 1998
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Doto escatllari is a species of sea slug, a nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Dotidae.
This species was first described from the Canary Islands. It has subsequently been reported from the Caribbean coast of Costa Rica, [2] Barbados [3] and Panama. [4]
The body is short and narrow. [4] Rhinophores are smooth and with opaque white dots. [4] Rhinophoral sheaths are with small frontal extensions. [4] Cerata are large with rounded tubercles; apical tubercles much larger than the rest. [4] The cerata are translucent blue, and the ceratal tubercles have no dark spots and contain dense concentrations of rounded hyaline glandular structures. [5] Background color is translucent gray with a series of dark brown spots on the dorsum. [4] Cerata are with dark brown branches of the digestive gland and bluish tubercles. [4] This dendronotid nudibranch is translucent white with mid-sized black spots scattered over the top and sides of the body. [5] In the internal base of the ceratal peduncle there is a black mark below the three-lobed transparent pseudobranch. [5]
The maximum recorded body length is 5 mm [4] or 6 mm. [6]
Minimum recorded depth is 1 m. [6] Maximum recorded depth is 4 m. [6]
Doto escatllari was found associated with small hydroids [4] of the family Sertulariidae; these are probably its prey.[ citation needed]
This article incorporates Creative Commons (CC-BY-4.0) text from the reference [4]
Doto escatllari | |
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Dorsal view of Doto escatllari on substrate | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Heterobranchia |
Order: | Nudibranchia |
Suborder: | Cladobranchia |
Family: | Dotidae |
Genus: | Doto |
Species: | D. escatllari
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Binomial name | |
Doto escatllari Ortea, Moro & Espinosa, 1998
[1]
|
Doto escatllari is a species of sea slug, a nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Dotidae.
This species was first described from the Canary Islands. It has subsequently been reported from the Caribbean coast of Costa Rica, [2] Barbados [3] and Panama. [4]
The body is short and narrow. [4] Rhinophores are smooth and with opaque white dots. [4] Rhinophoral sheaths are with small frontal extensions. [4] Cerata are large with rounded tubercles; apical tubercles much larger than the rest. [4] The cerata are translucent blue, and the ceratal tubercles have no dark spots and contain dense concentrations of rounded hyaline glandular structures. [5] Background color is translucent gray with a series of dark brown spots on the dorsum. [4] Cerata are with dark brown branches of the digestive gland and bluish tubercles. [4] This dendronotid nudibranch is translucent white with mid-sized black spots scattered over the top and sides of the body. [5] In the internal base of the ceratal peduncle there is a black mark below the three-lobed transparent pseudobranch. [5]
The maximum recorded body length is 5 mm [4] or 6 mm. [6]
Minimum recorded depth is 1 m. [6] Maximum recorded depth is 4 m. [6]
Doto escatllari was found associated with small hydroids [4] of the family Sertulariidae; these are probably its prey.[ citation needed]
This article incorporates Creative Commons (CC-BY-4.0) text from the reference [4]