Doto
miscellaneous unidentified species
Order: NUDIBRANCHIA
Suborder: DENDRONOTINA
Family: Dotidae
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Doto sp. ? from Ratnagiri, India
November 6, 2009
From: Vishal Bhave
Desr Bill
I am not sure of ID.
i got it on hydroid which I collected.
Locality: Mandavi, Ratnagiri, 30 centimeters, Maharashtra, India, Arabian sea, 19 October 2009, Intertidal, beneath the rock, in rockpool. Length: 8 mm. Photographer: Vishal Bhave.
Vishal Bhave
vishalbhave@gmail.com
Bhave, V.J., 2009 (Nov 6) Doto sp. ? from Ratnagiri, India. [Message in] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney. Available from http://www.seaslugforum.net/find/22712
Dear Vishal,
It is certainly a species of Doto but a lot of work is needed on the Indo-West Pacific species of the genus before we can sensibly identify many of them
Best wishes,
Bill Rudman
