Doto floridicola from Turkey

June 5, 2003
From: Haluk Akbatur


Dear Bill,
Two weeks ago I found, what I believe is a new species of nudi for the Turkey. It was 2 to 4 mm long, at 32 m. depth on a grass-sandy bottom. Water temperature 16 deg. C. I took pictures, but it was very small. It is white, with brown-purple dots at the tip of ceratas. So, its body looks like Doto sp. or Eubranchus spp.?

Dive place: Uc adalar (South-west of Turkey, Mediterranean) Depth: 32m; Size: 4 mm. May, 11 2003

Thanks for any help in identifying this species.
H. Haluk Akbatur

lasergoz@ttnet.net.tr

Akbatur, H. , 2003 (Jun 5) Doto floridicola from Turkey. [Message in] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney. Available from http://www.seaslugforum.net/find/10134

Dear Haluk,
Although some species of Eubranchus can have rounded papillae on the cerata, one easy way to separate them from species of Doto is to look at the rhinophores. Species of Doto, like all dendronotoideans, have the rhinophore enclosed in a sheath. If you look at your photos you can clearly see the sheath [or raised tube] whih partially encloses the rhinophore.

This is Doto floridicola. Thompson, et al (1990), report it from the Saronic Gulf, in Greece, but I don't know of a record as far east in the Mediterranean as Turkey.

• Thompson, T.E., Cattaneo, R. & Wong, Y.M. (1990). Eastern Mediterranean opisthobranchia: Dotidae (Dendronotoidea), Arminidae and Madrellidae (Arminoidea). Journal of Molluscan Research, 56: 393-413

Best wishes,
Bill Rudman

Rudman, W.B., 2003 (Jun 5). Comment on Doto floridicola from Turkey by Haluk Akbatur . [Message in] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney. Available from http://www.seaslugforum.net/find/10134

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