> [!summary]- Classification
**Kingdom**:: [Animalia](Animalia.md)
**Phylum**:: [Mollusca](Mollusca.md)
**Subphylum**::
**Superclass**::
**Class**:: [Gastropoda](Gastropoda.md)
**Subclass**:: Heterobranchia
**Superorder**:: Nudipleura
**Order**:: Nudibranchia
**Suborder**:: Doridina
**Superfamily**::
**Family**:: Discodorididae
**Subfamily**::
**Genus**:: Peltodoris
**Species**:: P. atromaculata
**Vernacular**:: Dotted sea-slug
## Photos
*[135 - 2023-07-22 - Grottes fauconières - Saint Cyr - France](135%20-%202023-07-22%20-%20Grottes%20fauconières%20-%20Saint%20Cyr%20-%20France.md) - On its favorite meal, the [Petrosia ficiformis - Stony sponge](Petrosia%20ficiformis%20-%20Stony%20sponge.md). On its left, a [Clathrina clathrus - Yellow clathrina](Clathrina%20clathrus%20-%20Yellow%20clathrina.md), and on its right, some [Leptopsammia pruvoti - Yellow solitary coral](Leptopsammia%20pruvoti%20-%20Yellow%20solitary%20coral.md). We distinclty see its rhinophores.*
*[135 - 2023-07-22 - Grottes fauconières - Saint Cyr - France](135%20-%202023-07-22%20-%20Grottes%20fauconières%20-%20Saint%20Cyr%20-%20France.md), in the other cave (there's two caves on this dive site), I found this particular behavior. Two individual, certainly in reproduction. With under them, the eggs that we can certainly associate to them. The things that looks like a fan is its gills, used to breath. Around: [Parazoanthus axinellae - Yellow encrusting anemone](Parazoanthus%20axinellae%20-%20Yellow%20encrusting%20anemone.md).*
*[135 - 2023-07-22 - Grottes fauconières - Saint Cyr - France](135%20-%202023-07-22%20-%20Grottes%20fauconières%20-%20Saint%20Cyr%20-%20France.md) - Another individual. Here, we can see the ruguous aspect of its skin, made of spiculums, just like sponges. (And maybe, that was stolen from the sponges it eat). Its gills are retractables.*
*[118 - 2023-04-29 - Grottes fauconières - Saint Cyr - France](118%20-%202023-04-29%20-%20Grottes%20fauconières%20-%20Saint%20Cyr%20-%20France.md) - Still on its favorite meal, the [Petrosia ficiformis - Stony sponge](Petrosia%20ficiformis%20-%20Stony%20sponge.md). Want to see P. atromaculata? Just search for this sponge.*
## Notes
Endemic to the Mediterranean Sea.
## References
- https://doris.ffessm.fr/Especes/Peltodoris-atromaculata-Doris-dalmatienne-169
- [Découvrir la vie sous-marine - Méditerranée - Steven Weinberg](Découvrir%20la%20vie%20sous-marine%20-%20Méditerranée%20-%20Steven%20Weinberg.md) p.284