Doto pita | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Heterobranchia |
Order: | Nudibranchia |
Suborder: | Cladobranchia |
Family: | Dotidae |
Genus: | Doto |
Species: | D. pita
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Binomial name | |
Doto pita Er. Marcus, 1955[1]
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Doto pita is a species of sea slug, a small nudibranch, a shell-less marine gastropod mollusc in the family Dotidae.[2]
Doto pita occurs in the Caribbean Sea and tropical west Atlantic Ocean, from Brazil to Florida. Reports from Japan,[3][4][5] and New Zealand,[6] may be the result of accidental transport by human agency or simply misidentifications.[7][8]
The body is translucent white with some brown spots at the bases of the cerata.[9] The digestive gland is cream and the cerata are rather irregular in appearance.[10]
The maximum recorded body length is 7 mm.[11]
Minimum recorded depth is 0 m.[11] Maximum recorded depth is 25 m.[11]