Kingdom Animalia Class Gastropoda Family Dotidae Rank Species | Phylum Mollusca Superfamily Tritonioidea Genus Doto | |
Doto cristal is a species of sea slug, a Dendronotid nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Dotidae.
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Distribution
This species was described from a single specimen, 2.5 mm in length, collected at Manzanillo, Limón, Costa Rica.
Description
This dendronotid nudibranch is transparent with no pigment apart from a few white glands in the rhinophore sheaths and rhinophores. The cerata have rather pointed tubercles and are also transparent with snow white digestive gland inside them.
Ecology
Doto cristal was found amongst algae.
References
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