Cerberilla potiguara

Cerberilla potiguara
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Heterobranchia

clade Euthyneura
clade Nudipleura
clade Nudibranchia
clade Dexiarchia
clade Cladobranchia
clade Aeolidida

Superfamily: Aeolidioidea
Family: Aeolidiidae
Genus: Cerberilla
Species: C. potiguara
Binomial name
Cerberilla potiguara
Padula & Delgado, 2010[1]

Cerberilla potiguara is a species of sea slug, an aeolid nudibranch, a marine heterobranch mollusc in the family Aeolidiidae.[2]

Distribution

This species was described from northeastern Brazil.

Description

All Cerberilla species have a broad foot and the cerata are long and numerous, arranged in transverse rows across the body. In this species the long oral tentacles are entirely dark blue and there is a band of yellow and one of orange across the front of the head. The outermost cerata are dark grey with bright orange tips and those towards the middle of the back are translucent with yellow tips.[3]

Ecology

Species of Cerberilla live on and in sandy substrates where they burrow beneath the surface and feed on burrowing sea anemones.

References

  1. Padula V. & Delgado M. (2010) A new species of Cerberilla (Gastropoda: Nudibranchia: Aeolidiidae) from northeastern Brazil. The Nautilus 124(4): 175-180.
  2. Bouchet, P. (2015). Cerberilla potiguara. In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species on 2015-11-12
  3. Cerberilla potiguara In: opisthobranchia.myspecies.info
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