title: Doto floridicola
text: # 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.
  
  