Doughnut Doto

Doto greenamyeri is a species of sea slug, a dendronotid nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Dotidae*.*

Distribution

This species was described from 20 m depth at Samarai Island in Kwato Channel, Milne Bay Province, Papua New Guinea. It is also known from Indonesia.

Description

The body of this dendronotid nudibranch is translucent white with pink ovotestis visible in mature individuals. There is a longitudinal stripe of brown pigment along the midline of the back which bifurcates on the head and leads to the brown rhinophores. The cerata are distinctive in shape, without tubercles but with a series of raised rings on their outer faces. They have bushy white pseudobranchs on the inner faces and the raised rings have brown lines at their apices, edged by orange. The maximum length of this species is 15 mm.

Ecology

Doto greenamyeri is found on colonies of an aglaopheniid hydroid.