Doto millbayana is a species of sea slug, a nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Dotidae.
| Doto millbayana | |
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| The nudibranch Doto millbayana, Strangford Lough, Co. Down, Northern Ireland, UK. | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Nudibranchia |
| Suborder: | Cladobranchia |
| Family: | Dotidae |
| Genus: | Doto |
| Species: | D. millbayana
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| Doto millbayana | |
Distribution
editThis species was first described from Plymouth, United Kingdom. It has subsequently been reported widely in Britain and Ireland, and south to Galicia, Spain.[2]
Description
editThis nudibranch is translucent white with dark red spots on the ceratal tubercles. Extra spots occur on the surfaces of the cerata between the tubercles. The back and sides are spattered with red pigment which extends up the inner faces of the rhinophore sheaths.[3]
Ecology
editDoto millbayana feeds on the hydroid Plumularia setacea, family Plumulariidae.
References
edit- ^ Lemche H. (1976). New British species of Doto Oken, 1815. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 56: 691-706
- ^ Ortea J. & Urgorri V. (1978). El género Doto Oken, 1815 en el Norte y Noroeste de Espana. Boletín de la Estación Central de Ecología ICONA 7 (14): 73-92
- ^ Picton, B.E. & Morrow, C.C., 2010. [In] Encyclopedia of Marine Life of Britain and Ireland