Doto caballa is a species of sea slug, a nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Dotidae.
| Doto caballa | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Heterobranchia |
| Order: | Nudibranchia |
| Suborder: | Cladobranchia |
| Family: | Dotidae |
| Genus: | Doto |
| Species: | D. caballa
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| Binomial name | |
| Doto caballa Ortea, Moro & Bacallado, 2010[1]
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Distribution edit
This species was described from Ceuta, an autonomous city of Spain on the north coast of Africa, and Albufeira on the south coast of Portugal, both localities at the entrance to the Mediterranean Sea.
Description edit
The body of this nudibranch is mostly translucent white in colour, with dense spots and dots of black along the middle of the back and more widely spaced spots on the sides of the body. The ceratal tubercles are short and usually have black spots at the tips[2]
Ecology edit
The diet of Doto caballa is currently unknown.
References edit
- ^ Ortea J., Moro L., Ocaña O. & Bacallado J.J., 2010. Contribución al estudio del género Doto Oken, 1815 (Mollusca: Nudibranchia) en Ceuta (España) con la descripción de nuevas especies. Archived October 17, 2014, at the Wayback Machine Revista de la Academia Canaria de Ciencias 21(3-4): 81-91 [issued september 2010], page(s): 84-86, 90.
- ^ Trainito, E. & Doneddu, M., 2014. Nudibranchi del Mediterraneo. 2nd Edition. Il Castello. ISBN 9788865204801, 192 pages.