Doto dunnei

Doto dunnei is a species of sea slug, a Dendronotid nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Dotidae.[2]

Doto dunnei
The nudibranch Doto dunnei, Strangford Lough, Northern Ireland.
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. dunnei
Binomial name
Doto dunnei
Lemche, 1976 [1]

Distribution

This species was first described from Galway Bay, Ireland. It has subsequently been reported widely in Britain and Ireland.[3] It is known to occur on the Mediterranean coast of Spain [4]

Description
Detail of cerata, Doto dunnei.

This dendronotid nudibranch is translucent white with dark red or black spots on the tips of the ceratal tubercles. Extra spots occur on the sides of the tubercles. The back and sides are spattered with red or brown pigment which extends up the inner faces of the rhinophore sheaths.[3]

Ecology

Doto dunnei feeds on the hydroid Kirchenpaueria pinnata.

References
  1. Lemche H. (1976). New British species of Doto Oken, 1815. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 56: 691-706
  2. Gofas, S. (2015). Doto dunnei Lemche, 1976. In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species on 2015-12-28
  3. Picton, B.E. & Morrow, C.C. (2015). Doto dunnei Lemche, 1976. [In] Encyclopedia of Marine Life of Britain and Ireland. Accessed on 2015-12-28
  4. Ballesteros, Manuel, Enric Madrenas, Miquel Pontes et al. (2012-2016) Doto dunnei in OPK-Opistobranquis, Published: 01/05/2013, Accessed: 27/01/2016.
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