Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda > Subclass Orthogastropoda > Subclass Heterobranchia > Infraclass Euthyneura > Subterclass Ringipleura > Superorder Nudipleura > Order Nudibranchia > Suborder Cladobranchia > Superfamily Dendronotoidea > Family Dotidae

Doto Oken, 1815

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Idalia*	Leach, 1847	synonym

Children

Doto acuta Schmekel & Kress, 1977
Doto affinis (A. d'Orbigny, 1837)
Doto alidrisi Ortea, Moro & Ocaña, 2010
Doto arteoi Ortea, 1978
Doto caballa Ortea, Moro & Bacallado, 2010
Doto canaricoronata Moro & Ortea, 2015
Doto cervicenigra Ortea & Bouchet, 1989
Doto cindyneutes Bouchet, 1977
Doto confluens Hesse, 1872
Doto coronata (Gmelin, 1791)
Doto crassicornis M. Sars, 1870
Doto cuspidata Alder & Hancock, 1862
Doto dunnei Lemche, 1976
Doto eireana Lemche, 1976
Doto eo Ortea & Moro, 2014
Doto escatllari Ortea, Moro & Espinosa, 1998
Doto floridicola Simroth, 1888
Doto fluctifraga Ortea & J. M. Pérez, 1982
Doto fragaria Ortea & Bouchet, 1989
Doto fragilis (Forbes, 1838)
Doto furva J. C. Garcia & Ortea, 1984
Doto hydrallmaniae Morrow, Thorpe & Picton, 1992
Doto hystrix Picton & G. H. Brown, 1981
Doto koenneckeri Lemche, 1976
Doto lemchei Ortea & Urgorri, 1978
Doto leopardina Vicente, 1967
Doto maculata (Montagu, 1804)
Doto millbayana Lemche, 1976
Doto oblicua Ortea & Urgorri, 1978
Doto onusta Hesse, 1872
Doto paulinae Trinchese, 1881
Doto pinnatifida (Montagu, 1804)
Doto pita Er. Marcus, 1955
Doto pontica Swennen, 1961
Doto pygmaea Bergh, 1871
Doto rosea Trinchese, 1881
Doto sarsiae Morrow, Thorpe & Picton, 1992
Doto sotilloi Ortea, Moro & Espinosa, 1998
Doto tuberculata Lemche, 1976
Doto unguis Ortea & Rodriguez, 1989
Doto verdicioi Ortea & Urgorri, 1978

Literature

original description	Oken, L. (1815-1816). Lehrbuch der Naturgeschichte. Dritter Theil: Zoologie. Erste Abtheilung: Fleischlose Thiere,Leipzig: C.H. Reclam & Jena: A. Schmid, [book (3rd vol part one, of 3 vols, including plates atlas of T.1, 1813]. xxviii + 842 pp. + xviii, 40 pls. L [copepods 180-184, 357-359, 4 plates].
additional source	Lemche, H. 1962. Doto Oken. 1815 (Gastropoda) ; proposed validation under the plenary powers. Z.N.(S.) 1006. Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature, 19(3):156-159
additional source	Shipman C. & Gosliner T. (2015). Molecular and morphological systematics of Doto Oken, 1851 (sic) (Gastropoda: Heterobranchia), with descriptions of five new species and a new genus. Zootaxa. 3973(1): 57-101.
subsequent type designation	ICZN. (1964). Opinion 697. Doto Oken, 1815 (Gastropoda): validated under the plenary powers. Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature. 21 (2): 97-100.

Genbank

Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Doto Oken, 1815. Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:137916