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WoRMS taxon detailsTetrastemma elegans (Girard, 1852)
159505 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:159505)
accepted
Species
Hecate elegans Girard, 1852 · unaccepted (synonym)
Hecate kelleri Girard, 1852 · unaccepted (synonym)
Prostoma elegans · unaccepted (synonym)
marine,
(of Hecate elegans Girard, 1852) 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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Distribution Cape Cod south (rarely north to Gulf of Maine)
Distribution Cape Cod south (rarely north to Gulf of Maine) [details]
Norenburg, J.; Chernyshev, A.; Kajihara, H.; Maslakova, S. (2025). World Nemertea Database. Tetrastemma elegans (Girard, 1852). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=159505 on 2025-04-18
Nomenclatureoriginal description
(of Hecate elegans Girard, 1852) 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]original description (of Hecate kelleri Girard, 1852) 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]basis of record Gosner, K. L. (1971). Guide to identification of marine and estuarine invertebrates: Cape Hatteras to the Bay of Fundy. <em>John Wiley & Sons, Inc., London.</em> 693 pp. [pdf copepod and branchiuran :445-455]. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors [request]Otheradditional source
Miner, R. W. (1950). Field book of seashore life. <em>G.P. Putnam & Sons.</em> 1-888. [details]
additional source Pollock, L.W. (1998). A practical guide to the marine animals of northeastern North America. Rutgers University Press. New Brunswick, New Jersey & London. 367 pp., available online at http://books.google.com/books?id=i1AmT31cuR4C [details] additional source Gosner, K.L. (1979). A Field Guide to the Atlantic Seashore. Invertebrates and Seaweeds of the Atlantic Coast from the Bay of Fundy to Cape Hatteras. <em>Wiley-Interscience, Boston.</em> 329pp., figs. 1-72, pls. 1-64. [pdf copepods only]. [details] Available for editors [request]additional source Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS). , available online at http://www.itis.gov [details]  Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
Unreviewed
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 20 mm by 1.5 mm [details] Distribution Cape Cod south (rarely north to Gulf of Maine) [details] Habitat benthic, living under rocks or in burrows in soft substrata, or crawling among algae, hydroids, or in bottom debris [details] Reproduction sexes are separate; fertilization is external for most species. Asexual reproduction also occurs by fragmentation [details] remark species fragment easily when handled [details]
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To Biodiversity Heritage Library (16 publications) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (5 publications) (from synonym Prostoma elegans) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (9 publications) (from synonym Hecate elegans Girard, 1852) To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Tetrastemma elegans) To GenBank (22 nucleotides; 11 proteins) To ITIS |
