Cerberilla asamusiensis Baba, 1940 Figure 17E

Material examined.

One specimen 8 mm, TT.

Ecology.

Exclusively found in deeper soft sediment habitats outside coral reef habitats, where it exhibits an endo-benthic substrate preference. Depth 14-20 m.

Distribution.

Across the Indo-Pacific including Australia (Nimbs and Smith 2016), China (Lin 1990), South Korea (Koh 2006), Japan (Baba 1957), and Indonesia (Gosliner et al. 2018). First documented from the Gulf of Thailand by Mehrotra and Scott (2016).