Doto pita is a species of sea slug, a small nudibranch, a shell-less marine gastropod mollusc in the family Dotidae.[2]
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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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| Binomial name | |
| Doto pita Er. Marcus, 1955[1]
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Distribution
editDoto 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]
Description
editThe 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]
Habitat
editMinimum recorded depth is 0 m.[11] Maximum recorded depth is 25 m.[11]
References
edit- ^ 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 [Saishu to Shiiku] 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. [In] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney.
- ^ Alicia, (2013) Doto pita Alicia, photo on Flickr
- ^ a b c 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.