Doto floridicola
Species of gastropod From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Species of gastropod From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Doto floridicola is a species of sea slug, a nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Dotidae.
| Doto floridicola | |
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| The nudibranch Doto floridicola, Pembrokeshire, Wales, UK. | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Nudibranchia |
| Suborder: | Cladobranchia |
| Family: | Dotidae |
| Genus: | Doto |
| Species: | D. floridicola |
| Binomial name | |
| Doto floridicola | |
| Synonyms | |
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Doto susanae Fez, 1962 | |
This species was first described from the Azores. It has subsequently been reported from the UK and continental coasts south to Portugal and into the Mediterranean Sea.[2]
This nudibranch is translucent white with large red spots entirely covering the ceratal tubercles. The back and sides are covered with an irregular, patchy, brown-red pigment, and there are bare areas around the bases of the cerata and along the sides of the foot.
Doto floridicola feeds on the hydroid Aglaophenia kirchenpaueri, family Aglaopheniidae.
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