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Dotidae

12 species · Animals

Animalia › Mollusca › Gastropoda › Nudibranchia › Dotidae

Doto amyra Er.Marcus, 1961

Doto amyra is a small Pacific North American nudibranch that feeds on hydroids, with unusual short planktonic larval development.

Doto columbiana O'Donoghue, 1921

Doto columbiana is a species of Doto nudibranch found along the Pacific coast of North America that feeds on Aglaophenia hydroids.

Doto kya Er.Marcus, 1961

Doto kya is a Pacific coast nudibranch that feeds on hydroids, with a white or pale brown body marked with dark brown or black.

Doto lancei Ev.Marcus & Er.Marcus, 1967

Doto lancei is a nudibranch species found along the eastern Pacific from San Diego to Costa Rica that feeds on Aglaophenia hydroids.

Doto pita Er.Marcus, 1955

Doto pita is a small nudibranch found in the Caribbean and tropical western Atlantic, growing up to 7 mm long.

Doto coronata (Gmelin, 1791)

Doto coronata is a small nudibranch that feeds on hydroids, found primarily in the North Atlantic and Mediterranean.

Doto ostenta Burn, 1958

Doto ostenta is a species of nudibranch found in southeastern Australia that lives and feeds on hydroids.

Doto fragilis (Forbes, 1838)

Doto fragilis is a brown nudibranch found in northeast Atlantic and Mediterranean waters that feeds on specific plumulariid hydroids.

Doto ussi Ortea, 1982

Doto ussi is a uniform yellow to olive-brown nudibranch found in the Indian and Pacific Oceans that feeds on stinging hydroids.

Doto dunnei Lemche, 1976

Doto dunnei is a translucent white spotted nudibranch found in British, Irish and Mediterranean Spanish waters that feeds on Kirchenpaueria pinnata hydroids.

Doto pinnatifida (Montagu, 1804)

Doto pinnatifida is a moderately sized pale-bodied nudibranch common to the North Atlantic that feeds exclusively on the hydroid Nemertesia antennina.

Doto greenamyeri Shipman & Gosliner, 2015

Doto greenamyeri is a small species of nudibranch found in Papua New Guinea and Indonesia that lives on aglaopheniid hydroid colonies.

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