Doto sabuli

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

Doto sabuli
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura
clade Nudipleura
clade Nudibranchia
clade Dexiarchia
clade Cladobranchia
clade Dendronotida
Superfamily:
Tritonioidea
Family:
Dotidae
Genus:
Doto
Species:
D. sabuli
Binomial name
Doto sabuli
Ortea, 2001[1]

Distribution

This species was described from Puerto Morelos, Quintana Roo, Mexico. It has also been reported from Lake Surprise, Florida and the Bahamas.[2]

Description

The body is translucent with dense surface speckling of red-brown pigment on the back and sides. The areas at the base of the cerata are clear of pigment. There are no dark spots on the ceratal tubercles, just many small white glands below the skin.[1]

The maximum recorded body length is 5 mm.[3]

Ecology

Minimum recorded depth is 0.6 m.[3] Maximum recorded depth is 0.6 m.[3]

Doto sabuli was found associated with small hydroids which were growing on the rhizomes of algae in shallow water.

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References
  1. 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
  2. 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
  3. 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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