Doto africana

Doto africana
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. africana
Binomial name
Doto africana
Eliot, 1905[1]

Doto africana is a species of sea slug, a Dendronotid nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Dotidae.[2]

Distribution

This species was described from Chuaka, Mkoani, Pemba, Tanzania, Africa.

Description

The size of the body attains 15 mm.

References

  1. ↑ Eliot, C. N. E. 1905. On some nudibranchs from east Africa and Zanzibar. Part VI. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 2:268-298, pls. 16-17.
  2. ↑ Bouchet, P. (2015). Doto africana Eliot, 1905. In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species on 2016-01-26.
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