{"id":31796,"date":"2021-03-06T10:42:05","date_gmt":"2021-03-06T09:42:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opistobranquis.info\/?page_id=31796"},"modified":"2021-03-06T10:55:50","modified_gmt":"2021-03-06T09:55:50","slug":"doto-pita","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/opistobranquis.info\/en\/guia\/nudibranchia\/dendronotoidea\/doto-pita\/","title":{"rendered":"Doto pita"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Doto pita<\/em> Er. Marcus, 1955<\/h3>\n

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Doto pita on hydroid @ Puerto del Carmen, Lanzarote, Spain<\/em> by Dennis Rabeling<\/center><\/span>

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WoRMS Taxonomic Information<\/h3>
Current accepted name: Doto pita<\/em> Er. Marcus, 1955<\/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 pita<\/em> Er. Marcus, 1955<\/a><\/td><\/tr><\/table>

Classification provided by the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS). [532765<\/a>]<\/p><\/div>Description
\n<\/strong>Body up to 7 mm. long. The colour of body and cerata is yellowish gray beneath a translucent white epidermis, with brownish spots on the back (missing in some NE Atlantic specimens) and some white spot on the head and cardiac area. The clubs of the rhinophores are smooth, with the base stained in red in Western Atlantic older specimens (but not in Eastern Atlantic ones) and with white spots to the tip. Funnel-shaped, tight and short rhinophoric sheaths whose margin is even and coloured white because of white spots accumulation, Eastern Atlantic specimens have the inside of the sheath pigmented in red continuing the dorsal pigmentation. Cerata along the dorsal margins are setup in similar sized 3-4 pairs, and another less developed pair closer to the tail. No distinct branchial thickenings at the base of cerata. Cerata shape is somewhat jaggy, the greatest width lies above the middle, with a conical tip. Each cera bears a few irregularly scattered, bluntly angled, small conical tubercles that do not form circlets, with characteristic small white spheres inside. Digestive gland inside the cerata may vary from white to cream-orange. The foot is narrow and ends in a pointed tail. The cephalic velum has very reduced lobes. Gonopore located below first right cera, anus right behind but in dorsal position, showing a cylindric anal papilla.<\/p>\n

Biology
\n<\/strong>Often found on Padina<\/em> and Galaxaura<\/em> sea weeds in the Atlantic coasts of America, found on hydrarians in the Canary Islands. The egg spawn is laid along the stolons of the Sertulariids it feeds on, shaped as a thin cord of white eggs laid in spiral on the hydrozoa.<\/p>\n

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