{"id":19946,"date":"2015-09-16T19:31:26","date_gmt":"2015-09-16T17:31:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opistobranquis.info\/?page_id=19946"},"modified":"2022-12-27T14:13:57","modified_gmt":"2022-12-27T13:13:57","slug":"doto-cervicenigra","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/opistobranquis.info\/en\/guia\/nudibranchia\/dendronotoidea\/doto-cervicenigra\/","title":{"rendered":"Doto cervicenigra"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Doto cervicenigra<\/em> Ortea & Bouchet, 1989<\/h3>\n

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Doto cervicenigra @ Sta. Maria al Bagno, Lecce, Italy 6\/04\/2016<\/em> by Cataldo Licchelli<\/center><\/span>

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WoRMS Taxonomic Information<\/h3>
Current accepted name: Doto cervicenigra<\/em> Ortea & Bouchet, 1989<\/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 cervicenigra<\/em> Ortea & Bouchet, 1989<\/a><\/td><\/tr><\/table>

Classification provided by the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS). [139628<\/a>]<\/p><\/div>Description
\n<\/strong>This is a small animal as it is about 5 mm long. The body is semitransparent, whitish, with a remarkable black spot on the dorsal part of the head that goes backwards between the rhinophores, and some stains of the same color on the dorsum\u00a0and sides body. The rhinophores have more than twice the height of the rhinophoric sheath, they have purplish \u00a0black spots in the lower half and show a large white spot at the tip. The edge of the rhinophoric sheath\u00a0is dotted with white spots. There are 6 pairs of cerata, where the largest have\u00a0two groups of globulous, almost spherical, tubercles, specially the apical tubercle, that have a subcutaneous purplish black spot, surrounded by white opaque pigment can even mask the black point. But for the\u00a0subapical group, no tubercles are developed on the inner side of the cerata, nor pseudobranchs could be\u00a0observed. The hazel coloured digestive gland is visible by transparency in the cerata. The gonad is visible by transparency between the 2nd and 3rd group of papillae, while the anal papilla is between the 1st and 2nd group on the right side of the body.<\/p>\n

Biology
\n<\/strong>Very little is known about the biology of this species that, like others of the same genus, is closely associated with pennate hydrozoans of the genus\u00a0Aglaophenia<\/em> (A. kirkenpaueri<\/em>, A. pluma<\/em>, A. tubiformis<\/em>) or Lytocarpia<\/em> (L. myriophyllum<\/em>). These animals keep a perfect mimicry on the hydrozoans so they are\u00a0very difficult to observe with the naked eye. The existence of specimens\u00a0in the colonies can be guessed when spawns are observed on them. The specimen\u00a0on which this species was described was collected by algal scraping in about 5 meters of water at\u00a0Calvi (Corsica, France).<\/p>\n

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