WoRMS name details
Hecate Girard, 1852
176146 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:176146)
unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Genus
Tetrastemma elegans (Girard, 1852) (type by monotypy)
- Species Hecate elegans Girard, 1852 accepted as Tetrastemma elegans (Girard, 1852) (synonym)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Girard, C. (1852). Descriptions of two new genera and two species of Nemertes. Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History, 4: 185-186 [details] Available for editors 
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[request]
Norenburg, J.; Chernyshev, A.; Kajihara, H.; Maslakova, S. (2025). World Nemertea Database. Hecate Girard, 1852. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=176146 on 2025-11-22
Date
action
by
2006-09-13 06:47:38Z
changed
Martinez, Olga
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Nomenclature
original description
Girard, C. (1852). Descriptions of two new genera and two species of Nemertes. Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History, 4: 185-186 [details] Available for editors [request]
[request]Taxonomy
source of synonymy
Gibson, R. (2005). Nemertina DB. Liverpool John Moore University, UK. [details]
Other
additional source
Neave, Sheffield Airey. (1939-1996). Nomenclator Zoologicus vol. 1-10 Online. <em>[Online Nomenclator Zoologicus at Checklistbank. Ubio link has gone].</em> , available online at https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/126539/about [details]
