WoRMS taxon details
Cerebratulus marginatus Renier, 1804
AphiaID: 122478
AphiaID: 122478
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Nemertea (Phylum) > Anopla (Class) > Heteronemertea (Subclass) > Lineidae (Family) > Cerebratulus (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | ||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||
| Rank | Species | ||||||||||
| Parent | Cerebratulus Renier, 1804 | ||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Avenardia alileuti (synonym) Avenardia priei (synonym) Borlasia alileuti (synonym) Cerebratulus angulosus Haddon, 1886 (synonym) Cerebratulus fragilis (synonym) Cerebratulus grandis (synonym) Cerebratulus spraguei (synonym) Gordius fragilis (synonym) Lineus beattiaei (Gray, 1857) (Synonym) Meckelia serpentaria Diesing, 1850 (Synonym) Meckelia somatotomus Leuckart, 1828 (Synonym) Nemertes somatotomus (synonym) Ophyocephalus bilineata (synonym) Ophyocephalus bilineatus (synonym) Polia siphunculus Delle Chiaje, 1828 (synonym) | ||||||||||
| Sources |
basis of record: Gibson, R. (2001). Nemertini (Nemertae), in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 152-156 (look up in IMIS) [details] additional source: Gibson, R. (2005) Nemertina DB. Liverpool John Moore University, UK [details] additional source: Gosner, K.L. 1971. Guide to identification of marine and estuarine invertebrates: Cape Hatteras to the Bay of Fundy. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 693 p. (look up in IMIS) [details] additional source: Linkletter, L.E. 1977. A checklist of marine fauna and flora of the Bay of Fundy. Huntsman Marine Laboratory, St. Andrews, N.B. 68 p. [details] additional source: Muller, Y. (2004). Faune et flore du littoral du Nord, du Pas-de-Calais et de la Belgique: inventaire. [Coastal fauna and flora of the Nord, Pas-de-Calais and Belgium: inventory]. Commission Régionale de Biologie Région Nord Pas-de-Calais: France. 307 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] additional source: Hayward, P.J.; Ryland, J.S. (Ed.) (1990). The marine fauna of the British Isles and North-West Europe: 1. Introduction and protozoans to arthropods. Clarendon Press: Oxford, UK. ISBN 0-19-857356-1. 627 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] additional source: ITIS database, available online at http://www.itis.gov [details] | ||||||||||
| Vernacular Names |
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| Environment | marine | ||||||||||
| Distribution | Belgian Exclusive Economic Zone [details] European waters (ERMS scope) [details] Gulf of Maine [details] Gulf of St. Lawrence [details] Irish Exclusive economic Zone [details] North East Atlantic [details] North West Atlantic [details] Portuguese Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Saguenay Fjord [details] Spanish Exclusive Economic Zone [details] United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Wimereux [details] | ||||||||||
| Feedingtypes |
deposit feeder: subsurface [details]
grazer [details] | ||||||||||
| Links | To Barcode of Life (4 barcodes) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (112 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (15 nucleotides; 6 proteins) To Marine Species Identification Portal To PESI To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Nemertea Collection To ITIS | ||||||||||
| Notes |
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 1 m by 12 mm [details] Distribution: Arctic south to Cape Cod and Rhode Island [details] Habitat: infralittoral and circalittoral of the Gulf and estuary [details] Reproduction: sexes are separate; fertilization is external for most species. Asexual reproduction also occurs by fragmentation [details] Synonymy: Cerebratulus marginatus = ?Cerebratulus angulatus (partim) = Cerebratulus bilineatus (partim) = Cerebratulus fuscus (partim) [details] Synonymy: Cerebratulus marginatus (partim) = Cerebratulus pantherinus [details] Synonymy: Cerebratulus marginatus (partim) = Paradrepanophorus crassus [details] Taxonomy: species fragment easily when handled [details] | ||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:122478 | ||||||||||
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| Citation: Gibson, R. (2013). Cerebratulus marginatus Renier, 1804. In: Norenburg, J.; Gibson, R. (2013) World Nemertea database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=122478 on 2013-06-20 | |||||||||||
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