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Doto alidrisi<\/em>\u00a0 Ortea, Moro & Oca\u00f1a, 2010<\/h3>\n

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Doto alidrisi @ Ceuta, Spain 24-04-2010<\/em> by Leopoldo Moro Abad<\/center><\/span>

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WoRMS Taxonomic Information<\/h3>
Current accepted name: Doto alidrisi<\/em> Ortea, Moro & Oca\u00f1a, 2010<\/strong><\/div>

Current classification<\/h4>
Superdomain<\/th>Biota<\/a><\/td><\/tr>
Kingdom<\/th>Animalia<\/a><\/td><\/tr>
Phylum<\/th>Mollusca<\/a><\/td><\/tr>
Class<\/th>Gastropoda<\/a><\/td><\/tr>
Subclass<\/th>Heterobranchia<\/a><\/td><\/tr>
Infraclass<\/th>Euthyneura<\/a><\/td><\/tr>
Subterclass<\/th>Ringipleura<\/a><\/td><\/tr>
Superorder<\/th>Nudipleura<\/a><\/td><\/tr>
Order<\/th>Nudibranchia<\/a><\/td><\/tr>
Suborder<\/th>Dendronotina<\/a><\/td><\/tr>
Superfamily<\/th>Dendronotoidea<\/a><\/td><\/tr>
Family<\/th>Dotidae<\/a><\/td><\/tr>
Genus<\/th>Doto<\/em><\/a><\/td><\/tr>
Species<\/th>Doto alidrisi<\/em> Ortea, Moro & Oca\u00f1a, 2010<\/a><\/td><\/tr><\/table>

Classification provided by the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS). [548366<\/a>]<\/p><\/div>Description
\n<\/strong>With a maximum reported size of 11 mm, it has an elongated, translucent white coloured body, finishing in a triangular tail. There is a dorsal band formed by reddish spots (of a more intense hue in small specimens than in larger ones) that starts in the front part of the head and reaches the height of the last pair of ceratas, without reaching the tail, which has some white dots but no reddish spots. Bands of reddish dots also cover the flanks, below the ceratal insertion line. In the middle part of the body the reddish dorsal band connects with the lateral ones. The head has a translucent white veil with several opaque white dots and some reddish dots, a convex shape and cornered by lateral lobes, more elongated as the size of the animal increases. The internal organs, cream-colored, are visible by transparency, especially in larger specimens. The rhinophores are smooth and relatively long, translucent white coloured, covered with opaque white spots along their entire length; they come out of rhinophoric sheaths that are not cylindrical but slightly narrow in their middle part, reminding an hourglass, they are also translucent white with white dots around the edge of the sheath and with red dots at their base internal side. In front of the rhinophores there could be a small tubercle stained in opaque white. The most characteristic trait of this species is the shape and color of its ceratas. All the studied specimens presented 5 pairs of ceratas. The first pair of ceratas appears relatively close to the rhinophores, at a closer distance than it separates them from the second pair of ceratas. The central stem of each cerata is narrow, of tubular form, widened in its middle part and with a thin end, of a length equivalent to a third of the total length of the cerata, topped by a small distal bulb. The base of the cerata, with reddish spots on the base, especially in young specimens, has a series of 3-5 relatively long tubercles inserted perpendicular to the line of the cerata on the anterior, posterior and exterior sides, while on the interior side they are are more reduced; all the tubercles are topped by small distal bulbs and have white granules inside, which are separated from the cream-colored digestive gland that fills the central body of the cerata. On the right side of the body, between the rhinophoric sheath and the first cerata we find the genital pore. A little further back, between the first and second cerata, we find the anal papilla, globular and with an opaque white spot in the center.<\/p>\n

Biology
\n<\/strong>It feeds on hydrarians, although these are not identified in the description of the species. The spawn is a wavy ribbon, deposited on its food, whose loops turn onto themselves and are grouped forming a ball; it contains white or pinkish coloured eggs that are arranged inside forming 7-8 rows at the top of the ribbon. The general shape of the animal makes it look like Doto coronata<\/em>, from which it is separated by the characteristic shape of the ceratas, the rhinophoric sheaths narrowed in its middle part and the elongated oral lobes.<\/p>\n

Etymology<\/strong><\/p>\n