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Doto caballa<\/em>\u00a0 Ortea, Moro & Bacallado, 2010<\/h3>\n

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Doto caballa @ Ceuta, Spain 25-04-2010<\/em> by Leopoldo Moro Abad<\/center><\/span>

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WoRMS Taxonomic Information<\/h3>
Current accepted name: Doto caballa<\/em> Ortea, Moro & Bacallado, 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 caballa<\/em> Ortea, Moro & Bacallado, 2010<\/a><\/td><\/tr><\/table>

Classification provided by the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS). [548367<\/a>]<\/p><\/div>Description
\n<\/strong>The body is tall and robust, decreasing its profile and narrowing in the posterior third to form a thin and sharp tail from the sixth pair of ceratas, which are very little developed. The color of the body is translucent white, completely covered with small black spots, including the spaces between the ceratas. The cream-colored internal organs are visible by transparency throughout the body, except the tail. The head has a convex profile and it is cornered by two wide oral lobes that follow the curvature of the head. The rhinophores are translucent white with a slight yellowish hue, and covered with opaque white spots along the stem. The rhinophoric sheaths have a very wide quadrangular opening, with the front edge exposed and dotted with white; their outer walls are dotted with black spots like the rest of the body, and their height is half the length of the rhinophores. It has up to six pairs of ceratas, proportionally large and easily autotomizable; The first four pairs are very large compared to the others. Each cerata is transparent so the granular textured and cream-colored digestive gland can be seen by transparency; it can have up to 5-6 transverse rows of tubercles, with a maximum number of 12 tubercles in the middle row of the greater cerata. Each tubecle has a globose shape with a narrow base, with a small bluish-black sphere inside. On the inner side of the larger ceratas there could be a branched pseudobranch. The anal papilla is white and is located between the first and second cerata on the right side of the body.<\/p>\n

Biology
\n<\/strong>It feeds on hydrarians, although these are not identified in the description of the species. The spawn has not been described either. Its look reminds that of Doto millbayana<\/em>, and they can be confused since they are both found in the same location at Sagres (Portugal), but they are easily differentiated because D. millbayana<\/em> has black dots and spots on the tubercles of the ceratas, in addition to the dark central sphere, missing in D. caballa<\/em>. In addition, the abrupt narrowing of the posterior part of the body, the quadrangular edge of the rhinophoric sheaths and the coloration of the digestive gland in the ceratas of D. caballa<\/em> are characteristic traits.<\/p>\n

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