MSBIAS taxon details
Lineus lacteus (Rathke, 1843)
148583 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:148583)
accepted
Species
Myoisophagos lacteus (Rathke, 1843) · unaccepted > superseded combination (synonym)
Ramphogordius lacteus Rathke, 1843 · unaccepted
marine, fresh, terrestrial
(of Ramphogordius lacteus Rathke, 1843) Rathke, H. (1843). Beiträge zur Fauna Norwegens. [Contributions to the Fauna of Norway]. <em>Nova Acta Academiae Caesareae Leopoldino-Carolinae Naturae Curiosorum, Breslau & Bonn.</em> 20: 1-264., available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.11613 [details] 
Norenburg, J.; Chernyshev, A.; Kajihara, H.; Maslakova, S. (2026). World Nemertea Database. Lineus lacteus (Rathke, 1843). Accessed through: The UK Marine Environmental Data and Information Network (2026) Marine Species of Britain, Ireland and Adjacent Seas (MSBIAS): a checklist of species derived from the UNICORN and Marine Recorder applications at: https://www.marinespecies.org/msbias/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=148583 on 2026-03-24
The UK Marine Environmental Data and Information Network (2026). Marine Species of Britain, Ireland and Adjacent Seas (MSBIAS): a checklist of species derived from the UNICORN and Marine Recorder applications. Lineus lacteus (Rathke, 1843). Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/msbias/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=148583 on 2026-03-24
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(of Ramphogordius lacteus Rathke, 1843) Rathke, H. (1843). Beiträge zur Fauna Norwegens. [Contributions to the Fauna of Norway]. <em>Nova Acta Academiae Caesareae Leopoldino-Carolinae Naturae Curiosorum, Breslau & Bonn.</em> 20: 1-264., available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.11613 [details]
taxonomy source Ament-Velásquez, S. L.; Figuet, E.; Ballenghien, M.; Zattara, E. E.; Norenburg, J. L.; Fernández-Álvarez, F. A.; Bierne, J.; Bierne, N.; Galtier, N. (2016). Population genomics of sexual and asexual lineages in fissiparous ribbon worms (<i>Lineus</i>, Nemertea): hybridization, polyploidy and the Meselson effect. <em>Molecular Ecology.</em> 25(14): 3356–3369., available online at https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.13717 [details] Available for editors
basis of record Hayward, P.J. & J.S. Ryland (Eds.). (1990). The marine fauna of the British Isles and North-West Europe: 1. Introduction and protozoans to arthropods. <em>Clarendon Press: Oxford, UK.</em> 627 pp. (look up in IMIS), available online at https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198573562.001.0001 [details] Available for editors
additional source Senz, W. (1993). Nemertinen europäischer Küstenbereiche (Nebst erganzenden Angaben zur Anatomie von Apatronemertes albimaculosa Wilfert & Gibson 1974). Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien Serie B Botanik und Zoologie., 94/95: 47-145, available online at http://www.landesmuseum.at/pdf_frei_remote/ANNA_94_95B_0047-0145.pdf http://www.jstor.org/stable/41766887 [details] Available for editors
source of synonymy Gibson, R. (2005). Nemertina DB. Liverpool John Moore University, UK. [details]
taxonomy source Ament-Velásquez, S. L.; Figuet, E.; Ballenghien, M.; Zattara, E. E.; Norenburg, J. L.; Fernández-Álvarez, F. A.; Bierne, J.; Bierne, N.; Galtier, N. (2016). Population genomics of sexual and asexual lineages in fissiparous ribbon worms (<i>Lineus</i>, Nemertea): hybridization, polyploidy and the Meselson effect. <em>Molecular Ecology.</em> 25(14): 3356–3369., available online at https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.13717 [details] Available for editors
basis of record Hayward, P.J. & J.S. Ryland (Eds.). (1990). The marine fauna of the British Isles and North-West Europe: 1. Introduction and protozoans to arthropods. <em>Clarendon Press: Oxford, UK.</em> 627 pp. (look up in IMIS), available online at https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198573562.001.0001 [details] Available for editors
additional source Senz, W. (1993). Nemertinen europäischer Küstenbereiche (Nebst erganzenden Angaben zur Anatomie von Apatronemertes albimaculosa Wilfert & Gibson 1974). Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien Serie B Botanik und Zoologie., 94/95: 47-145, available online at http://www.landesmuseum.at/pdf_frei_remote/ANNA_94_95B_0047-0145.pdf http://www.jstor.org/stable/41766887 [details] Available for editors
source of synonymy Gibson, R. (2005). Nemertina DB. Liverpool John Moore University, UK. [details]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
To Barcode of Life (10 barcodes) (from synonym Ramphogordius lacteus Rathke, 1843)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication) (from synonym Myoisophagos lacteus (Rathke, 1843))
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (7 publications) (from synonym Ramphogordius lacteus Rathke, 1843)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (79 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Lineus lacteus)
To GenBank (52 nucleotides; 27 proteins)
To GenBank (52 nucleotides; 27 proteins) (from synonym Ramphogordius lacteus Rathke, 1843)
To PESI (from synonym Myoisophagos lacteus (Rathke, 1843))
To PESI (from synonym Ramphogordius lacteus Rathke, 1843)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Nemertea Collection (1 record) (from synonym Ramphogordius lacteus Rathke, 1843)
To ITIS
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication) (from synonym Myoisophagos lacteus (Rathke, 1843))
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (7 publications) (from synonym Ramphogordius lacteus Rathke, 1843)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (79 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Lineus lacteus)
To GenBank (52 nucleotides; 27 proteins)
To GenBank (52 nucleotides; 27 proteins) (from synonym Ramphogordius lacteus Rathke, 1843)
To PESI (from synonym Myoisophagos lacteus (Rathke, 1843))
To PESI (from synonym Ramphogordius lacteus Rathke, 1843)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Nemertea Collection (1 record) (from synonym Ramphogordius lacteus Rathke, 1843)
To ITIS
From editor or global species database
