Doto cristal

Doto cristal is a species of sea slug, a Dendronotid nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Dotidae.

Doto cristal
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Genus:
Doto
Species:
D. cristal
Binomial name
Doto cristal
Ortea, 2010[1]

Distribution

This species was described from a single specimen, 2.5 mm in length, collected at Manzanillo, Limón, Costa Rica.

Description

This dendronotid nudibranch is transparent with no pigment apart from a few white glands in the rhinophore sheaths and rhinophores. The cerata have rather pointed tubercles and are also transparent with snow white digestive gland inside them.

Ecology

Doto cristal was found amongst algae.

References

  1. Ortea J., 2010. Tres nuevas especies de Doto Oken, 1815 (Mollusca: Nudibranchia), colectadas en el Caribe de Costa Rica y en las Islas Galapagos. Revista de la Academia Canaria de Ciencias 21(3-4): 109-115, page 113.
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