Doto varaderoensis
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| Doto varaderoensis with spawn | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura clade Nudipleura clade Nudibranchia clade Dexiarchia clade Cladobranchia clade Dendronotida |
| Superfamily: | Tritonioidea |
| Family: | Dotidae |
| Genus: | Doto |
| Species: | D. varaderoensis |
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Doto varaderoensis Ortea, 2001 |
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Doto varaderoensis is a species of sea slug, a Dendronotid nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Dotidae.
This species was described from Playa de Varadero, Cuba. It has also been reported from Puerto Rico and Lake Worth Lagoon, Florida.
The body of this dendronotid nudibranch is translucent brown in colour. The cerata have numerous tubercles which are swollen and globular in appearance.
The maximum recorded body length is 10 mm.
Minimum recorded depth is 1 m. Maximum recorded depth is 5 m.
Doto varaderoensis was found associated with the hydroids Thyroscyphus sp. in the family Sertulariidae.
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