Cerberilla africana Eliot, 1903

Description

Ground colour milky white. Cerata are tipped with yellow, marked below by a blue band and carry an orange ring at mid-length. The cerata along the dorsal mid-line are washed with white. Rhinophores smooth and short, brown at the base, yellow above and tipped with blue. Oral tentacles very long, with the same colour pattern as the rhinophores. The species burrows in sand. Reaches 30 mm in length.

Distribution

Indo-West Pacific: South Africa, Tanzania, Zanzibar and the Philippines. The type locality is Jambiani beach, Zanzibar.

Etymology

The specific epithet africana is the Latin for "African" and refers to the East African coast where the type material was collected.

Remarks

Originally described in 1903 "On some nudibranchs from East Africa and Zanzibar, part II" (Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond.).

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