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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Nudibranchia |
| Suborder: | Cladobranchia |
| Family: | Dotidae |
| Genus: | Doto |
| Species: | D. pita |
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| Doto pita Er. Marcus, 1955 | |
Doto pita is a species of sea slug, a small nudibranch, a shell-less marine gastropod mollusc in the family Dotidae.
Distribution
Doto pita occurs in the Caribbean Sea and tropical west Atlantic Ocean, from Brazil to Florida. Reports from Japan, and New Zealand, may be the result of accidental transport by human agency or simply misidentifications.
Description
The body is translucent white with some brown spots at the bases of the cerata. The digestive gland is cream and the cerata are rather irregular in appearance.
The maximum recorded body length is 7 mm.
Habitat
Minimum recorded depth is 0 m. Maximum recorded depth is 25 m.
References
- Marcus, Er. (1955). Opisthobranchia from Brazil. Boletim da Faculdade de Filosofia, Ciências e Letras, Universidade de São Paulo, Zoology, 207, 20:89-261, pls. 1-30.
- Rosenberg, G. (2015). Doto pita Er. Marcus, 1955. In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species on 2016-01-26
- Baba, K. 1971. New record in Japan of Doto (Doto) pita Marcus, 1955, a nudibranch gastropod. Appendix: list of the Dotoidae from Japan. Collecting & Breeding 33(6):131-132 (in Japanese).
- Baba, K. 1971. Anatomical studies on three species of Doto (D. bella, D. japonica and D. pita) from Japan (Nudibranchia: Dendronotoidea: Dotoidae). Publications of the Seto Marine Biological Laboratory 19(2-3):73-79, pls. 4-5.
- Bolland, R.F. (2013). Japanese form on Okinawan Opisthobranchs.
- Morton, J. E., & Michael C. Miller. 1973. The New Zealand seashore, 653 pp. 2nd edition. Collins, London & Auckland.
- Powell A. W. B., (1979). New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand. ISBN 0-00-216906-1
- Franicevic, Simon (2011). Doto pita, photo of New Zealand form on Flickr
- Rudman, W.B., 2002 (July 1) Doto pita Marcus, 1955. Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney.
- Alicia, (2013) Doto pita Alicia, photo on Flickr
- ^ Welch J. J. (2010). "The “Island Rule” and Deep-Sea Gastropods: Re-Examining the Evidence". PLoS ONE 5(1): e8776. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0008776.
External links
- Burn R. (2006) A checklist and bibliography of the Opisthobranchia (Mollusca: Gastropoda) of Victoria and the Bass Strait area, south-eastern Australia. Museum Victoria Science Reports 10:1–42
- "Doto pita". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 16 January 2019.
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