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Cerberilla moebii

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Gastropoda

Family
  
Aeolidiidae

Rank
  
Species

Phylum
  
Mollusca

Superfamily
  
Aeolidioidea

Genus
  
Cerberilla

Cerberilla moebii is a species of sea slug, an aeolid nudibranch, a marine heterobranch mollusc in the family Aeolidiidae.

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Distribution

This species was described from Mauritius. An animal from Reunion may be this species.

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 have bands of dark blue and there is a narrow band of black on each of the cerata. Two species from the Indian Ocean, Cerberilla africana Eliot, 1903 (East Africa) and Cerberilla affinis (Bergh, 1888) - Indonesia are similar in colour.

Ecology

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

References

Cerberilla moebii Wikipedia