WoRMS taxon details
Cerebratulus luridus
AphiaID: 157978
AphiaID: 157978
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Nemertea (Phylum) > Anopla (Class) > Heteronemertea (Subclass) > Lineidae (Family) > Cerebratulus (Genus) |
| Status |  unaccepted (synonym) | ||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||
| Accepted name | Tarrhomyos luridus (Verrill, 1873) | ||||||||||
| Rank | Species | ||||||||||
| Parent | Cerebratulus Renier, 1804 | ||||||||||
| Sources |
basis of record: ITIS database, available online at http://www.itis.gov [details] additional source: Gosner, K.L. 1971. Guide to identification of marine and estuarine invertebrates: Cape Hatteras to the Bay of Fundy. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 693 p. (look up in IMIS) [details] source of synonymy: Gibson, R. (2005) Nemertina DB. Liverpool John Moore University, UK [details] | ||||||||||
| Distribution | Gulf of Maine [details] North West Atlantic [details] Tongue Shoal [details] | ||||||||||
| Links | To Biodiversity Heritage Library (15 publications) To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Nemertea Collection To ITIS | ||||||||||
| Notes |
Diet: generally for group, they are carnivorous; in some cases only the body juices are ingested but the whole prey may be taken in. feed on protozoans, other microfauna and at times prey their own size [details] Dimensions: length up to 240 mm by 12 mm [details] Distribution: Bay of Fundy to Cape Hatteras [details] Habitat: benthic, living under rocks or in burrows in soft substrata, or crawling among algae, hydroids, or in bottom debris; this species is also bathypelagic by swimming during periods of sexual activity [details] Reproduction: sexes are separate; fertilization is external for most species. Asexual reproduction also occurs by fragmentation [details] Taxonomy: species fragment easily when handled [details] | ||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:157978 | ||||||||||
| Taxonomic Edit history |
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| Citation: Gibson, R. (2013). Cerebratulus luridus. In: Norenburg, J.; Gibson, R. (2013) World Nemertea database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=157978 on 2013-05-21 | |||||||||||
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