Doto pita is a species of sea slug, a small nudibranch, a shell-less marine gastropod mollusc in the family Dotidae. Distribution Doto pita occurs in the Caribbean Sea and tropical west Atlantic Ocean, from Brazil to Florida. Reports from Japan, and New Zealand, may be the result of accidental transport by human agency or simply misidentifications. Description The body is translucent white with some brown spots at the bases of the cerata. The digestive gland is cream and the cerata are rather irregular in appearance. The maximum recorded body length is 7 mm. Habitat Minimum recorded depth is 0 m. Maximum recorded depth is 25 m. References External links Burn R. (2006) A checklist and bibliography of the Opisthobranchia (Mollusca: Gastropoda) of Victoria and the Bass Strait area, south-eastern Australia. Museum Victoria Science Reports 10:1–42 Dotidae Gastropods described in 1955 Taxa named by Ernst Marcus (zoologist)