Doto cabecar
Doto cabecar is a species of sea slug, a Dendronotid nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Dotidae.
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| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura clade Nudipleura clade Nudibranchia clade Dexiarchia clade Cladobranchia clade Dendronotida |
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| Species: | D. cabecar |
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| Doto cabecar Ortea, 2001[1] | |
Distribution
This species was described from the Caribbean coast of Costa Rica. It has subsequently been reported from the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico.[2]
Description
This dendronotid 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]
Ecology
Minimum recorded depth is 20 m.[5] Maximum recorded depth is 20 m.[5]
Doto cabecar feeds on the hydroid, Thyroscyphus marginatus (family Sertulariidae).
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References
- Ortea J. (2001) El género Doto Oken, 1815 (Mollusca: Nudibranchia) en el mer Caribe: Historia natural y descripción de nuevas especies. Avicennia Suppl. 3 : 1-46. page(s): 21
- Valdés, Ángel; Hamann, Jeff; Behrens, David W.; DuPont, Anne. Caribbean Sea Slugs, Sea Challengers Natural History Books, Etc., Gig Harbor, Washington 2006, pp. 150-151. ISBN 0-9700574-2-3
- Doto cabecar account at INBio. Archived July 19, 2007, at the Wayback Machine Species of Costa Rica.
- Ortea, J. A., & M. Caballer. (2003) Nuevos caracteres anatómicos de Doto cabecar Ortea, 2001 (Mollusca: Nudibranchia). Avicennia, Revista de Oceanología, Ecología y Biodiversidad Tropical 16:107-112.
- Welch J. J. (2010). "The “Island Rule” and Deep-Sea Gastropods: Re-Examining the Evidence". PLoS ONE 5(1): e8776. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0008776.
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