#4679 · 🐌 snails, slugs & other molluscs
Crowned Seaslug
🇳🇱 Roodgevlekte kroonslak ·Doto coronata
🐌 Snails, slugs & other molluscs 📍 in the Netherlands
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what is it?
Doto coronata is a species of small sea slug or nudibranch, a shell-less marine gastropod mollusc in the family Dotidae. It is the type species of the genus Doto .
base stats
Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).
fun facts
- Spotted 20 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 743 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Johann Friedrich Gmelin in 1791 (235 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Crowned Seaslug
- Nederlands
- Roodgevlekte kroonslak
- scientific name
- Doto coronata
- class
- Gastropoda
- order
- Nudibranchia
- family
- Dotidae
- sightings in NL
- 20
- sightings in Europe
- 153
- sightings worldwide
- 743
- GBIF records in NL
- 278
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1791 by Johann Friedrich Gmelin
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 61909, Wikidata Q3142217, GBIF 5190041, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.