''Cerberilla potiguara'' is a

species A species () is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriate sexes or mating types can produce fertile offspring, typically by sexual reproduction. It is the basic unit of Taxonomy (biology), ...

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, an aeolid

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, a marine

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in the

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Aeolidiidae Aeolidiidae, a family of aeolid nudibranchs, are a family of sea slugs, shell-less marine gastropod mollusc Mollusca is a phylum of protostome, protostomic invertebrate animals, whose members are known as molluscs or mollusks (). Around ...

.Bouchet, P. (2015)
''Cerberilla potiguara''.
In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species on 2015-11-12

Distribution

This species was described from northeastern

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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.''Cerberilla potiguara''
In: opisthobranchia.myspecies.info

Ecology

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

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q13459865 Aeolidiidae Gastropods described in 2010