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Description
Diniatys is a genus of small shelled sea slugs, placed in the family Haminoeidae by the Sea Slug Forum and known from the tropical western Pacific. D. dentifer (about 5 mm) lives on cyanobacteria, mainly Lyngbya majuscula, on shallow reefs, and D. dubius (about 1 cm) occurs on sandy-mud bottoms.
Identification
A tiny slug with a fragile, transparent, egg-shaped shell whose spire is barely noticeable and partly hidden beneath the mantle. In D. dentifer the body is brown in various shades with a darker brown band along the midline of the head, and the shell has a tooth-like projection on the columella.
Species in this genus (1)
Sources (2)
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