Pita Doto

About this species

Doto pita is a species of sea slug, a small nudibranch, a shell-less marine gastropod mollusc in the family Dotidae.

Text from the Wikipedia article “Doto pita”, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Read the article

Where and when

Where it has been recorded

Worldwide

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Best months

Worldwide (open data)

January: 21 records
February: 11 records
March: 29 records
April: 49 records
May: 30 records
June: 17 records
July: 20 records
August: 25 records
September: 20 records
October: 49 records
November: 18 records
December: 20 records

Depth and water temperature

Depth

Mostly recorded at 1–18 m · Deepest record: 30 m

0–10 m: 50 records
10–20 m: 29 records
20–30 m: 7 records
30–40 m: 1 records

Water temperature

Recorded in surface water of 13–29 °C

12–14 °C: 9 records
14–16 °C: 31 records
16–18 °C: 1 records
18–20 °C: 26 records
20–22 °C: 28 records
22–24 °C: 7 records
24–26 °C: 0 records
26–28 °C: 15 records
28–30 °C: 3 records

Photos

(c) Christopher Mark, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC BY · iNaturalist
(c) Christopher Mark, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC BY · iNaturalist
(c) Pauline Walsh Jacobson, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC BY · iNaturalist
(c) Pauline Walsh Jacobson, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC BY · iNaturalist
(c) Rafael Rosa, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA) · CC BY-SA · iNaturalist

Names and classification

English: Pita Doto

Names in 1 more languages

Japanese: ヒイラギウミウシ, ヒイラギウミウシ／ヒイラギマツカサウミウシ

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Sources and credits

Names and taxonomy: WoRMS (CC BY 4.0) and the GBIF Backbone (CC BY 4.0). Photos: iNaturalist observers, each under the licence shown (CC0, CC BY or CC BY-SA).

Depth, temperature, months and maps: records from OBIS and GBIF under CC0 or CC BY.
Descriptions: Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA, each linked to its article.
Conservation status as published by GBIF (IUCN Red List).
128 open-data records from 1961 to 2026.
Species data updated November 2, 2026.