Doto cabecar is a species of sea slug, a nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Dotidae.
Distribution This species was described from the Caribbean coast of Costa Rica. It has subsequently been reported from the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico.Valdés, Ángel; Hamann, Jeff; Behrens, David W.; DuPont, Anne. Caribbean Sea Slugs, Sea Challengers Natural History Books, Etc., Gig Harbor, Washington 2006, pp. 150-151.
Description This nudibranch is pale brown with yellow rhinophores and cerata. The ceratal tubercles bear dark spots, except for the terminal tubercle on each ceras, which has a concentration of internal white glands.Doto cabecar account at INBio. Species of Costa Rica. Further details of this species are given in Ortea & Caballer, 2003.Ortea, J. A., & M. Caballer. (2003) Nuevos caracteres anatómicos de Doto cabecar Ortea, 2001 (Mollusca: Nudibranchia). Avicennia, Revista de Oceanología, Ecología y Biodiversidad Tropical 16:107-112.
The maximum recorded body length is 14 mm.Welch J. J. (2010). "The “Island Rule” and Deep-Sea Gastropods: Re-Examining the Evidence". PLoS ONE 5(1): e8776. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0008776.
Ecology Minimum recorded depth is 20 m. Maximum recorded depth is 20 m.
Doto cabecar feeds on the hydroid, Thyroscyphus marginatus (family Sertulariidae).
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