Doto floridicola
# Doto floridicola

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

## Distribution

This species was first described from the Azores. It has subsequently been reported from the UK and continental coasts south to Portugal and into the Mediterranean Sea.

## Description

This nudibranch is translucent white with large red spots entirely covering the ceratal tubercles. The back and sides are covered with an irregular, patchy, brown-red pigment, and there are bare areas around the bases of the cerata and along the sides of the foot.

## Ecology

Doto floridicola feeds on the hydroid Aglaophenia kirchenpaueri, family Aglaopheniidae.

