WoRMS taxon details

Nemertea

To NHMUK collection (Nemertea ul; NON-TYPE; NHMUK:ecatalogue:9473963)
To NHMUK collection (Nemertea ul; NON-TYPE; NHMUK:ecatalogue:9473963)

152391  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:152391)

  1. Biota
  2. Animalia (Kingdom)
  3. Nemertea (Phylum)
accepted
Phylum
Nemertina · alternative representation
Nemertini · unaccepted
Rhynchocoela · unaccepted (synonym)

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  1. Class Arhynchocoela
  2. Class Hoplonemertea
  3. Superclass Neonemertea
  4. Class Palaeonemertea
  5. Class Pilidiophora
  6. Superclass Pronemertea
  7. Class Anopla accepted as Nemertea incertae sedis (dismissed, no longer used: paraphyletic)
  8. Class Enopla accepted as Hoplonemertea (dismissed, no longer used)
  9. Order Mesonemertini accepted as Palaeonemertea (synonym)
  10. Order Protonemertini accepted as Palaeonemertea (synonym)
  11. Class Nemertea incertae sedis (temporary name)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent + fossil
Not documented
WoRMS (2025). Nemertea. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=152391 on 2025-07-18
Date
action
by
2005-04-11 09:30:41Z
created
Cuvelier, Daphne
2010-08-20 13:20:59Z
changed
Norenburg, Jon
2020-08-07 14:08:48Z
changed
Norenburg, Jon

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Nomenclature

basis of record Bürger, O. (1897-1907). Nemertini (Schnurwürmer). In: Bronn, H. G., ed. Klassen und Ordnungen des Tierreichs. C. F. Winter, Bd. 4, Supplement: 542 pp [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

Taxonomy

taxonomy source Strand, M.; Norenburg, J.; Alfaya, J. E.; Ángel Fernández-Álvarez, F.; Andersson, H. S.; Andrade, S. C. S.; Bartolomaeus, T.; Beckers, P.; Bigatti, G.; Cherneva, I.; Chernyshev, A.; Chung, B. M.; Von Döhren, J.; Giribet, G.; Gonzalez-Cueto, J.; Herrera-Bachiller, A.; Hiebert, T.; Hookabe, N.; Junoy, J.; Kajihara, H.; Krämer, D.; Kvist, S.; Magarlamov, T. Y.; Maslakova, S.; Mendes, C. B.; Okazaki, R.; Sagorny, C.; Schwartz, M.; Sun, S.-C.; Sundberg, P.; Turbeville, J. M.; Xu, C.-M. (2018). Nemertean taxonomy—implementing changes in the higher ranks, dismissing Anopla and Enopla. <em>Zoologica Scripta.</em> 48(1): 118–119., available online at https://doi.org/10.1111/zsc.12317 [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

taxonomy source Chernyshev, A.V. (2021). An updated classification of the phylum Nemertea. <em>Invertebrate Zoology.</em> 18(3): 188–196. [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

 
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LanguageName 
Dutch snoerwormen [from synonym]  [details]
English ribbon wormsnemertines  [details]
German Schnurwürmer  [details]
Japanese 紐形動物門  [details]
Swedish slemmaskar  [details]
To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL) 
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Nemertea) 
To Genbank (from synonym Nemertini)
To Genbank 
To NHMUK collection (Nemertea ul; NON-TYPE; NHMUK:ecatalogue:9473963) 
To The Arctic Traits Database (0 traits) (from synonym Nemertini)
To The Arctic Traits Database (23 traits) 
To Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History (YPM IZ 096488) 
To ITIS
From editor or global species database
Unreviewed