Researchers find a new marine invertebrate species in the Weddell Sea, in the Antarctica
Nudibranchs from the Doto genre are found around the oceans and are gastropod molluscs that feed from hydroids and cnidarian. In Antarctic latitudes, the only identified species until now was Doto antarctica, which was found for the first time in the Ross Sea and described in 1907 by the British diplomat and malacologist Charles Norton E. Eliot.
The new species D. carinova, captured at 277 metres under the Weddell sea, enriches the biologic heritage of the white continent and increases the number of invertebrates discovered by the experts of the projects Ecoquim, Actiquim and Distantcom, led by Professor Conxita Àvila (Faculty of Biology-IRBio) to study chemical ecology, philogeography and trophic ecology in invertebrate marine communities in the Antarctica.