''Doto coronata'' is a species of small sea slug or nudibranch, a shell-less

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gastropod The gastropods (), commonly known as snails and slugs, belong to a large taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda (). This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, from freshwater, and from land. T ...

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in the family Dotidae.Gofas, S. (2011)
''Doto coronata'' (Gmelin, 1791).
Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species on 2012-05-17 It is the type species of the genus '' Doto''.

Doto coronata sensu lato

Before 1976 a number of species were called by the name ''Doto coronata'' and the process of splitting this complex into species was started by Henning Lemche. Species with translucent white bodies and red or black spots on the cerata which were formerly identified as ''Doto coronata'' include: * '' Doto africoronata'' Shipman & Gosliner, 2015 * ''

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Doto eireana ''Doto eireana'' is a species of sea slug, a nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusc Mollusca is the second-largest phylum of invertebrate animals after the Arthropoda, the members of which are known as molluscs or mollusks (). Around 85 ...

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Doto hydrallmaniae ''Doto hydrallmaniae'' is a species of sea slug, a nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusc Mollusca is the second-largest phylum of invertebrate animals after the Arthropoda, the members of which are known as molluscs or mollusks (). Aro ...

'' Morrow, Thorpe & Picton, 1992 * ''

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'' Lemche, 1976 * ''

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'' Hesse, 1872 * ''

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'' Morrow, Thorpe & Picton, 1992

Distribution

The type locality for this species is on the Dutch coast. A specimen from near Goes, Eastern Scheldt, Zeeland was designated as a neotype in a recent review of the genus ''Doto''. It has been reported elsewhere in the North Atlantic Ocean (European waters, Canada, Gulf of Maine) and the Mediterranean Sea (Greece) but many records are likely to be of sibling species.''Doto coronata''
Picton, B.E. & Morrow, C.C. (2010). n/nowiki> Encyclopedia of Marine Life of Britain and Ireland. It was erroneously reported from around the South African coast where it is found from the Atlantic coast to KnysnaGosliner, T.M. (1987). ''Nudibranchs of Southern Africa.'' and this species has been described as '' Doto africoronata''.

Description

This species is a small nudibranch, with grape-bunch-like clusters of cerata extending in pairs along the sides of the body. In all '' Doto'' the rhinophores extend from cup-like sheaths. ''Doto coronata'' is translucent white in colour with mottling of dark red on the back and sides of the body. The ceratal tubercles are tipped with round red spots. There is a patch of dark red pigment on the inner faces of the cerata. The maximum recorded body length is 15 mm.

Ecology

Minimum recorded depth is 4 m. Maximum recorded depth is 27 m. ''Doto coronata'' feeds on hydroids, especially '' Obelia'' spp.

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Sertularia cupressina ''Sertularia'' is a genus of hydroids in the family Sertulariidae. Species The following species are recognized in the genus ''Sertularia'': *''Sertularia albimaris'' Mereschkowsky, 1877 *Air Fern (''Sertularia argentea'' Linnaeus, 1758) *'' S ...

'' Sertulariidae. Its egg mass is a white ribbon laid in a zigzag pattern, usually on or at the base of the hydroids it is feeding on. It is a host of the ectoparasitic crustaceans '' Doridicola agilis'' Leydig, 1853 and '' Splanchnotrophus brevipes'' Hancock & Norman, 1863 and the endoparasitic crustacean '' Lomanoticola brevipes'' (Hancock & Norman, 1863)

References

* Backeljau, T. (1986). ''Lijst van de recente mariene mollusken van België

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'' Koninklijk Belgisch Instituut voor Natuurwetenschappen: Brussels, Belgium. 106 pp.

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{{Taxonbar, from=Q3142217 Dotidae Gastropods described in 1791 Taxa named by Johann Friedrich Gmelin