Doto africoronata
| Doto africoronata | |
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| Doto africoronata with egg ribbon | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Nudibranchia |
| Suborder: | Cladobranchia |
| Family: | Dotidae |
| Genus: | Doto |
| Species: | D. africoronata
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| Doto africoronata Shipman & Gosliner, 2015[1]
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Doto africoronata is a species of small sea slug or nudibranch, a shell-less marine gastropod mollusc in the family Dotidae.[3]
Distribution
[edit]This species is known from around the South African coast where it is found from the Atlantic coast to Knysna.[2][1] It is known from the intertidal to more than 25 m.
Description
[edit]This species is a small (up to 15 mm) nudibranch, with grape-bunch-like clusters of cerata extending in pairs along the sides of the body. In all Doto the rhinophores extend from cup-like sheaths. Doto africoronata is translucent white in colour with mottling of dark red on the back and sides of the body. The ceratal tubercles are tipped with round red spots.
References
[edit]- ^ a b Shipman, C.; Gosliner, T. (2015). "Molecular and morphological systematics of Doto Oken, 1851 (Gastropoda: Heterobranchia), with descriptions of five new species and a new genus". Zootaxa. 3973: 1. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3973.1.2. PMID 26249713.
- ^ a b Gosliner, Terrence. (1987) Nudibranchs of southern Africa: A guide to Opisthobranch molluscs of southern Africa Sea Challengers, as Doto coronata, page 106. Monterey. ISBN 0-930118-13-8
- ^ Bouchet, P. (2015). Doto africoronata Shipman & Gosliner, 2015. In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species on 2015-11-28