Cerberilla is a genus of sea slugs, aeolid nudibranchs, shell-less marine gastropod mollusks in the family Aeolidiidae.Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S. (2011). Cerberilla Bergh, 1873. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species on 2012-06-07
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.Carmona L., Pola M., Gosliner T.M. & Cervera J.L. (2013). 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
Species Species in the genus Cerberilla include: Cerberilla affinis Bergh, 1888Burn 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. Cerberilla africana Eliot, 1903 Cerberilla albopunctata Baba, 1976 Cerberilla ambonensis Bergh, 1905 Cerberilla annulata (Quoy & Gaimard, 1832) Cerberilla asamusiensis Baba, 1940 Cerberilla bernadettae Tardy, 1965Tardy 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 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, 1975McDonald GR, Nybakken J (1975) Cerberilla mosslandica, a new eolid nudibranch from Monterey Bay, California. Veliger 17: 378–382 Cerberilla potiguara Padula & Delgado, 2010Padula V, Delgado M (2010) A new species of Cerberilla (Gastropoda: Nudibranchia: Aeolidiidae) from northeastern Brazil. Nautilus 124: 175–180 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
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