WoRMS taxon details
Heteronemertea
122305 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:122305)
Bürger, 1892
accepted
Order
Heteronemertini · unaccepted (synonym)
Heteronemertini · unaccepted (synonym)
Schizonemertini · alternative representation
- Family Lineidae McIntosh, 1874
- Family Poliopsidae Gibson, 1982
- Genus Pseudobaseodiscus Senz, 1993
- Family Valenciniidae Hubrecht, 1879
- Genus Hemicyclia Ehrenberg, 1831 (uncertain > taxon inquirendum, Questionably a Heteronemertea)
- Genus Pseudonematon Hubrecht, 1883 (uncertain > nomen dubium)
- Family Baseodiscidae Bürger, 1904 accepted as Valenciniidae Hubrecht, 1879 (unaccepted > superseded rank)
- Family Borlasiidae Diesing, 1862 accepted as Lineidae McIntosh, 1874 (unaccepted > nomen oblitum)
- Family Cephalomastaxidae Iwata, 1972 (unaccepted > nomen nudum)
- Family Cerebratulidae Gibson, 1985 accepted as Lineidae McIntosh, 1874 (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
- Family Epithetosomatidae Danielssen & Koren, 1880 accepted as Lineidae McIntosh, 1874 (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
- Family Gorgonorhynchidae Gibson, 1985 accepted as Lineidae McIntosh, 1874 (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
- Family Micruraea Ehrenberg, 1831 accepted as Micruridae Ehrenberg, 1831 accepted as Lineidae McIntosh, 1874 (unaccepted > misspelling - incorrect original spelling)
- Family Micruridae Ehrenberg, 1831 accepted as Lineidae McIntosh, 1874
- Family Mixolineidae Gibson, 1985 accepted as Lineidae McIntosh, 1874 (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
- Family Panorhynchidae Gibson, 1985 accepted as Lineidae McIntosh, 1874 (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
- Family Paralineidae Chernyshev, 1995, stat. emend. Chernyshev, 1999 accepted as Lineidae McIntosh, 1874 (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
- Family Polybrachiorhynchidae Gibson, 1985 accepted as Lineidae McIntosh, 1874 (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
- Family Riseriellidae Tholleson & Norenburg, 2003 accepted as Riseriidae Chernyshev, 1995, stat. emend. Chernyshev, 1999 accepted as Lineidae McIntosh, 1874 (unaccepted > misspelling - incorrect subsequent spelling, incorrect spelling of Riseriidae)
- Family Riseriidae Chernyshev, 1995, stat. emend. Chernyshev, 1999 accepted as Lineidae McIntosh, 1874 (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Not documented
Norenburg, J.; Chernyshev, A.; Kajihara, H.; Maslakova, S. (2026). World Nemertea Database. Heteronemertea. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=122305 on 2026-01-10
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Nomenclature
basis of record
Chernyshev, A.V. (2021). An updated classification of the phylum Nemertea. <em>Invertebrate Zoology.</em> 18(3): 188–196. [details] Available for editors 
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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 [request]
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Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
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| Japanese | 異紐虫目 | [details] |
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Heteronemertea)
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To Genbank (from synonym Heteronemertini)
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To Genbank (from synonym Heteronemertini)
To The Arctic Traits Database (0 traits)
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