Cerberilla

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title: "Cerberilla" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["aeolidiidae"] description: "Genus of gastropods" topic_path: "general/aeolidiidae" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cerberilla" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary Genus of gastropods ::

| image = B12 4817-1.jpg | image_caption = The nudibranch Cerberilla africana, Likoni, Kenya. | taxon = Cerberilla | authority = Bergh, 1873 | synonyms = Fenrisia Bergh, 1888 | type_species= Cerberilla longicirrha Bergh, 1873

Cerberilla is a genus of sea slugs, aeolid nudibranchs, shell-less marine gastropod mollusks in the family Aeolidiidae.

All Cerberilla species have a broad foot and the cerata are numerous, arranged in transverse rows across the body. They live on and in sandy substrates where they burrow beneath the surface and feed on burrowing sea anemones.

The taxonomic status of this genus remains unrevised.

Species

Species in the genus Cerberilla include:

• Cerberilla affinis Bergh, 1888
• Cerberilla africana Eliot, 1903
• Cerberilla albopunctata Baba, 1976
• Cerberilla ambonensis Bergh, 1905
• Cerberilla annulata (Quoy & Gaimard, 1832)
• Cerberilla asamusiensis Baba, 1940
• Cerberilla bernadettae Tardy, 1965
• Cerberilla chavezi Hermosillo & Valdés, 2007
• Cerberilla incola Burn, 1974
• Cerberilla longibranchus (Volodchenko, 1941)
• Cerberilla longicirrha Bergh, 1873 - Type species
• Cerberilla moebii (Bergh, 1888)
• Cerberilla mosslandica McDonald & Nybakken, 1975
• Cerberilla potiguara Padula & Delgado, 2010
• Cerberilla pungoarena Collier & Farmer, 1964
• Cerberilla tanna Ev. Marcus & Er. Marcus, 1960 ;Species brought into synonymy:
• Cerberilla bernadetti Tardy, 1965: synonym of Cerberilla bernadettae Tardy, 1965

References

References

1. Bergh, L. S. R. 1873. ''Neue Nacktschnecken der Südsee, malacologische Untersuchungen.'' Journal des Museum Godeffroy 1(2):65-96 [137-168], pls. 9-12.
2. Bieler, R. & R. E. Petit, 2012. [http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/list/2012/3511.html ''Molluscan taxa in the publications of the Museum Godeffroy of Hamburg, with a discussion of the Godeffroy Sales Catalogs (1864–1884), the Journal des Museum Godeffroy (1873–1910), and a history of the museum.''] Zootaxa, 3511: 1-80
3. Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S. (2011). [http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=137634 ''Cerberilla'' Bergh, 1873.] Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species on 2012-06-07
4. Carmona L., Pola M., Gosliner T.M. & Cervera J.L. (2013). [http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0063000 ''A tale that morphology fails to tell: A molecular phylogeny of Aeolidiidae (Aeolidida, Nudibranchia, Gastropoda).''] PLoS ONE 8(5): e63000. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0063000
5. Burn R (1966) ''Descriptions of Australian Eolidacea (Mollusca: Opisthobranchia) 4. The genera ''Pleurolidia'', ''Fiona'', ''Learchis'' and ''Cerberilla'' from Lord Howe Island.'' J Malac Soc of Aust 10: 21–34.
6. Tardy JP (1965) ''Description et biologie de Cerberilla bernadetti, espèce nouvelle de Gasteropode Nudibranche de la côte atlantique française. Discussion sur la position systématique du genre''. Bull Inst Océanogr 65: 1–22, pls. 1–6
7. McDonald GR, Nybakken J (1975) [https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/134953#page/558/mode/1up Cerberilla mosslandica'', a new eolid nudibranch from Monterey Bay, California''.] Veliger 17: 378–382
8. Padula V, Delgado M (2010) ''A new species of ''Cerberilla'' (Gastropoda: Nudibranchia: Aeolidiidae) from northeastern Brazil''. Nautilus 124: 175–180

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