WoRMS taxon details
Gnesioceros sargassicola (Mertens, 1833)
158296 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:158296)
accepted
Species
Gnesioceros mertens (Diesing, 1850) · unaccepted
Gnesioceros mertensi (Diesing, 1850) · unaccepted
Pelagoplana sargassicola (Mertens, 1833) · unaccepted
Planaria sargassicola Mertens, 1833 · unaccepted
Planocera sargassicola (Mertens, 1833) · unaccepted
Stylochoplana sargassicola (Mertens, 1833) · unaccepted
Stylochus mertensi Diesing, 1850 · unaccepted
Stylochus pelagicus Moseley, 1877 · unaccepted
Stylochus pelagicus Moseley, 1877 · unaccepted
Stylochus sargassicola (Mertens, 1833) · unaccepted
marine
(of Planaria sargassicola Mertens, 1833) Mertens, H. (1833). Untersuchungen über den innern Bau verschiedener in der See lebender Planarien. <em>Mémoires de l'Académie impériale des sciences de St.- Pétersbourg. 6e série, Sciences mathématiques, physiques et naturelles.</em> (6) 2: 3-17. [details] 
Distribution Virginian, southside of Cape Cod to Cape Hatteras
Distribution Virginian, southside of Cape Cod to Cape Hatteras [details]
Tyler, S., Artois, T.; Schilling, S.; Hooge, M.; Bush, L.F. (eds) (2006-2025). World List of turbellarian worms: Acoelomorpha, Catenulida, Rhabditophora. Gnesioceros sargassicola (Mertens, 1833). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=158296 on 2025-06-12
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Nomenclature
original description
(of Planaria sargassicola Mertens, 1833) Mertens, H. (1833). Untersuchungen über den innern Bau verschiedener in der See lebender Planarien. <em>Mémoires de l'Académie impériale des sciences de St.- Pétersbourg. 6e série, Sciences mathématiques, physiques et naturelles.</em> (6) 2: 3-17. [details]
original description (of Gnesioceros mertens (Diesing, 1850)) Diesing, C.M. [[Karl Moritz, usually as Latin C. M = Carolo Mauritio]. (1850). Systema Helminthum. Vol. I. <em>[book].</em> xiii[xvi] + 679 pp.W. Vindobonae, Braumüller, Wien., available online at https://archive.org/details/systemahelminth00diesgoog/page/n5/mode/2up?view=theater [details]
basis of record 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]
original description (of Gnesioceros mertens (Diesing, 1850)) Diesing, C.M. [[Karl Moritz, usually as Latin C. M = Carolo Mauritio]. (1850). Systema Helminthum. Vol. I. <em>[book].</em> xiii[xvi] + 679 pp.W. Vindobonae, Braumüller, Wien., available online at https://archive.org/details/systemahelminth00diesgoog/page/n5/mode/2up?view=theater [details]
basis of record 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]
Other
context source (Bermuda)
Hyman, L. H. (1939). Acoel and polyclad Turbellaria from Bermuda and the Sargassum. Bulletin of the Bingham Oceanographic Collection
, 7(1): 1-26 [details]
additional source Hooge, M. D. and L. J. Newman. 2009. Turbellarians (Acoelomorpha and Free-Living Platyhelminthes) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 413–418 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College St [details]
additional source Cuadrado, D.; Hernández-Gonzalez, A.; Noreña, C.; Simões, N. (2024). Polyclads (Platyhelminthes) in the southern Gulf of Mexico: unveiling biodiversity and descriptions of two new species. <em>ZooKeys.</em> 1221: 103-144., available online at https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1221.128260 [details] Available for editors
[request]
additional source Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS). , available online at http://www.itis.gov [details]
additional source Hooge, M. D. and L. J. Newman. 2009. Turbellarians (Acoelomorpha and Free-Living Platyhelminthes) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 413–418 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College St [details]
additional source Cuadrado, D.; Hernández-Gonzalez, A.; Noreña, C.; Simões, N. (2024). Polyclads (Platyhelminthes) in the southern Gulf of Mexico: unveiling biodiversity and descriptions of two new species. <em>ZooKeys.</em> 1221: 103-144., available online at https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1221.128260 [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
Distribution Virginian, southside of Cape Cod to Cape Hatteras [details]
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (14 publications) (from synonym Planocera sargassicola (Mertens, 1833))
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (19 publications) (from synonym Stylochoplana sargassicola (Mertens, 1833))
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications) (from synonym Pelagoplana sargassicola (Mertens, 1833))
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications) (from synonym Stylochus mertensi Diesing, 1850)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (31 publications) (from synonym Stylochus pelagicus Moseley, 1877)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (31 publications) (from synonym Stylochus pelagicus Moseley, 1877)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (7 publications)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (8 publications) (from synonym Stylochus sargassicola (Mertens, 1833))
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Gnesioceros sargassicola)
To GenBank (1 nucleotides; 0 proteins)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Platyhelminthes Collection (1 record)
To Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History (YPM IZ 020145)
To ITIS
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (19 publications) (from synonym Stylochoplana sargassicola (Mertens, 1833))
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications) (from synonym Pelagoplana sargassicola (Mertens, 1833))
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications) (from synonym Stylochus mertensi Diesing, 1850)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (31 publications) (from synonym Stylochus pelagicus Moseley, 1877)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (31 publications) (from synonym Stylochus pelagicus Moseley, 1877)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (7 publications)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (8 publications) (from synonym Stylochus sargassicola (Mertens, 1833))
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Gnesioceros sargassicola)
To GenBank (1 nucleotides; 0 proteins)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Platyhelminthes Collection (1 record)
To Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History (YPM IZ 020145)
To ITIS
