Turbellarians taxon details
Catenula Duges, 1832
479388 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:479388)
accepted
Genus
Anortha Leidy, 1852 · unaccepted (nomen oblitum)
Fuhrmannia Graff, 1908 · unaccepted (junior synonym)
Glyphorhynchus Hällström & Luther in Luther, 1907 · unaccepted (junior synonym)
Lophorhynchus Hällström & Luther in Luther, 1907 · unaccepted (junior synonym)
Suomina Marcus, 1945 · unaccepted
- Species Catenula alitha Marcus, 1945
- Species Catenula evelinae (Marcus, 1945)
- Species Catenula lemnae Duges, 1832
- Species Catenula leptocephala Nuttycombe, 1956
- Species Catenula leuca Marcus, 1945
- Species Catenula macrura Marcus, 1945
- Species Catenula quaterna Schmarda, 1859
- Species Catenula sawayai (Marcus, 1945)
- Species Catenula sekerai de Beauchamp, 1919
- Species Catenula turgida (Zacharias, 1902) Larsson, Ahmadzadeh & Jondelius, 2008
- Species Catenula virginia Kepner & Carter, 1930
- Species Catenula bina Schmarda, 1859 accepted as Stenostomum binum Schmarda, 1859
- Species Catenula confusa Nuttycombe, 1956 accepted as Catenula lemnae Duges, 1832 (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
- Species Catenula gesserensis (Müller OF, 1774) accepted as Lineus ruber (Müller, 1774) (unaccepted > nomen nudum, misidentified; probably Lineus gesserensis, accepted as L. ruber)
- Species Catenula gracilis Leuckart, 1854 accepted as Catenula lemnae Duges, 1832
- Species Catenula heteroclita Fabricius, 1820 accepted as Catenula lemnae Duges, 1832
- Species Catenula pygmaea Reisinger, 1924 accepted as Dasyhormus pygmaeus (Reisinger, 1924)
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Duges, A. (1832). Description d'un zoophyte, voisin des Bothriocephales (Catenula Lemnae Nob). Ann des sc. Nat., 1. Ser. 26:198-205, pl 11,B [details]
Tyler, S., Artois, T.; Schilling, S.; Hooge, M.; Bush, L.F. (eds) (2006-2024). World List of turbellarian worms: Acoelomorpha, Catenulida, Rhabditophora. Catenula Duges, 1832. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/turbellarians/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=479388 on 2026-06-26
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original description
Duges, A. (1832). Description d'un zoophyte, voisin des Bothriocephales (Catenula Lemnae Nob). Ann des sc. Nat., 1. Ser. 26:198-205, pl 11,B [details]
original description (of Suomina Marcus, 1945) Marcus, Er. (1945). Sobre microturbellarios do brasil. Comunicaciones Zoologicas del Museo de Historia Natural Montevideo, 1[25]:1-74+4pl
page(s): 19-20 [details]
original description (of Anortha Leidy, 1852) Leidy, J. (1852). Description of new genera of Vermes. <em>Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia.</em> 5 (1850-1851): 124-126., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/1642712 [details]
source of synonymy (of Fuhrmannia Graff, 1908) Larsson, K.; Ahmadzadeh, A.; Jondelius, U. (2008). DNA taxonomy of Swedish Catenulida (Platyhelminthes) and a phylogenetic framework for catenulid classification. <em>Organisms Diversity & Evolution.</em> 8(5): 399-412., available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ode.2008.09.003
page(s): 410 [details]
source of synonymy (of Glyphorhynchus Hällström & Luther in Luther, 1907) Luther, A. (1960). Die Turbellarien Ostfennoskandiens I. Acoela, Catenulida, Macrostomida, Lecithoepitheliata, Prolecithophora, und Proseriata. Fauna Fennica, 7:1-155
page(s): 24 [details] Available for editors
source of synonymy (of Lophorhynchus Hällström & Luther in Luther, 1907) Luther, A. (1960). Die Turbellarien Ostfennoskandiens I. Acoela, Catenulida, Macrostomida, Lecithoepitheliata, Prolecithophora, und Proseriata. Fauna Fennica, 7:1-155
page(s): 24 [details] Available for editors
source of synonymy (of Suomina Marcus, 1945) Larsson, K.; Ahmadzadeh, A.; Jondelius, U. (2008). DNA taxonomy of Swedish Catenulida (Platyhelminthes) and a phylogenetic framework for catenulid classification. <em>Organisms Diversity & Evolution.</em> 8(5): 399-412., available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ode.2008.09.003
page(s): 410-411 [details]
original description (of Suomina Marcus, 1945) Marcus, Er. (1945). Sobre microturbellarios do brasil. Comunicaciones Zoologicas del Museo de Historia Natural Montevideo, 1[25]:1-74+4pl
page(s): 19-20 [details]
original description (of Anortha Leidy, 1852) Leidy, J. (1852). Description of new genera of Vermes. <em>Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia.</em> 5 (1850-1851): 124-126., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/1642712 [details]
source of synonymy (of Fuhrmannia Graff, 1908) Larsson, K.; Ahmadzadeh, A.; Jondelius, U. (2008). DNA taxonomy of Swedish Catenulida (Platyhelminthes) and a phylogenetic framework for catenulid classification. <em>Organisms Diversity & Evolution.</em> 8(5): 399-412., available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ode.2008.09.003
page(s): 410 [details]
source of synonymy (of Glyphorhynchus Hällström & Luther in Luther, 1907) Luther, A. (1960). Die Turbellarien Ostfennoskandiens I. Acoela, Catenulida, Macrostomida, Lecithoepitheliata, Prolecithophora, und Proseriata. Fauna Fennica, 7:1-155
page(s): 24 [details] Available for editors
source of synonymy (of Lophorhynchus Hällström & Luther in Luther, 1907) Luther, A. (1960). Die Turbellarien Ostfennoskandiens I. Acoela, Catenulida, Macrostomida, Lecithoepitheliata, Prolecithophora, und Proseriata. Fauna Fennica, 7:1-155
page(s): 24 [details] Available for editors
source of synonymy (of Suomina Marcus, 1945) Larsson, K.; Ahmadzadeh, A.; Jondelius, U. (2008). DNA taxonomy of Swedish Catenulida (Platyhelminthes) and a phylogenetic framework for catenulid classification. <em>Organisms Diversity & Evolution.</em> 8(5): 399-412., available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ode.2008.09.003
page(s): 410-411 [details]
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Catenula)
To Genbank (from synonym Suomina Marcus, 1945)
To the Turbellarian Taxonomic Database
(from synonym Suomina Marcus, 1945)
To the Turbellarian Taxonomic Database
(from synonym Anortha Leidy, 1852)
To the Turbellarian Taxonomic Database
(from synonym Fuhrmannia Graff, 1908)
To the Turbellarian Taxonomic Database
(from synonym Glyphorhynchus Hällström & Luther in Luther, 1907)
To the Turbellarian Taxonomic Database
(from synonym Lophorhynchus Hällström & Luther in Luther, 1907)
To the Turbellarian Taxonomic Database
To ITIS
To Genbank (from synonym Suomina Marcus, 1945)
To the Turbellarian Taxonomic Database
(from synonym Suomina Marcus, 1945)To the Turbellarian Taxonomic Database
(from synonym Anortha Leidy, 1852)To the Turbellarian Taxonomic Database
(from synonym Fuhrmannia Graff, 1908)To the Turbellarian Taxonomic Database
(from synonym Glyphorhynchus Hällström & Luther in Luther, 1907)To the Turbellarian Taxonomic Database
(from synonym Lophorhynchus Hällström & Luther in Luther, 1907)To the Turbellarian Taxonomic Database
To ITIS