Cerberilla ambonensis? from Indonesia

August 15, 2003
From: Erwin Koehler


Dear Bill,
The foot of this one looks similar to the photo of Scott Johnson's from the Solomon Islands, which you identified as Cerberilla ambonensis but the oral tentacles look pretty different. Any idea?
This shot is by Giorgio Berger (email: incocnito@hotmail.com), taken at Sulawesi, Indonesia.

length: 5cm
depth: 12m
date: 12 July 2003

Regards,
Erwin

Erwin@Philippine-Sea-Slugs.com

Koehler, E., 2003 (Aug 15) Cerberilla ambonensis? from Indonesia. [Message in] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney. Available from http://www.seaslugforum.net/find/10732

Thanks Erwin,
Actually Giorgio's photo makes me much more comfortable with my tentative identification of Scott Johnson's photo. Although the oral tentacles in Giorgio's photo are much more brightly coloured, the yellow patches match Scott's photo as does the blue region. Giorgio's photo also shows many of the features in the colour painting in Bergh (1905) - in particular the extremely long tentacular processes extending from the anterior corners of the foot and the ceratal colour pattern, consisting of a white tip, a subterminal black band then a yellow band.

So my feeling is that the similarities outweigh the differences and this is Cerberilla ambonensis
Best wishes,
Bill Rudman

Rudman, W.B., 2003 (Aug 15). Comment on Cerberilla ambonensis? from Indonesia by Erwin Koehler. [Message in] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney. Available from http://www.seaslugforum.net/find/10732

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