WoRMS taxon details
Lineus ruber (Müller, 1774)
AphiaID: 122536
AphiaID: 122536
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Nemertea (Phylum) > Anopla (Class) > Heteronemertea (Subclass) > Lineidae (Family) > Lineus (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | |||||||||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | |||||||||||||||||||
| Parent | Lineus Sowerby, 1806 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Borlasia gesserensis (synonym (partim)) Borlasia purpurea (synonym) Borlasia rufa (synonym) Cerebratulus fuscescens (synonym) Fasciola rubra (synonym) Lineus gesserensis ruber (synonym) Lineus purpureus (synonym) Nemertes communis Beneden, 1861 (junior synonym) Nemertes fusca Fabricius, 1780 (synonym) Nemertes fuscescens (synonym) Nemertes gesserensis (synonym) Nemertes obscura sensu Desor, 1848 (synonym) Nemertes octoculata Keferstein, 1862 (junior synonym) Nemertes olivacea Johnston, 1837 (synonym) Nemertes opaca (synonym) Nemertes purpurea Johnston, 1837 (synonym) Nemertes rufa (synonym) Notospermus gesserensis (synonym) Notospermus viridis (synonym) Planaria gesserensis Müller, 1788 (synonym) Planaria octoculata Johnston, 1828 (synonym) Polia gracilis Girard, 1851 (synonym) Polystemma carneum Müller, 1774 (synonym) Poseidon colei Girard, 1852 (synonym) | |||||||||||||||||||
| Sources |
original description: Muller, O.F. 1773-1774. Vermium terrestrium et fluviatilium, seu animalium infusoriorum, helminthicorum, et testaecorum, non marinorum, succincta historia. Volumen alterum. pp. I-XXVI [= 1-36], 1-214, [1-10]. Havniæ & Lipsiæ. (Heineck & Faber). [details] 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: Bromley, J.E.C., and J.S. Bleakney. 1984. Keys to the fauna and flora of Minas Basin. National Research Council of Canada Report 24119. 366 p. [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: Thomas, M.L.H. (ed.). 1983. Marine and coastal systems of the Quoddy Region, New Brunswick. Canadian Special Publication of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 64. 306 p. [details] additional source: Trott, T.J. 2004. Cobscook Bay inventory: a historical checklist of marine invertebrates spanning 162 years. Northeastern Naturalist (Special Issue 2): 261 - 324. [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] 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] | |||||||||||||||||||
| Vernacular Names |
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| Direct child taxa [show all] | Forma Lineus ruber f. ß accepted as Ramphogordius sanguineus (Rathke, 1799) | |||||||||||||||||||
| Environment | marine | |||||||||||||||||||
| Distribution | Cobscook Bay [details] European waters (ERMS scope) [details] Gulf of Maine [details] Irish Exclusive economic Zone [details] Mediterranean Sea [details] North East Atlantic [details] North West Atlantic [details] Oostende [details] Portuguese Exclusive Economic Zone [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 (1 barcode) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (72 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (12 nucleotides; 6 proteins) To Marine Species Identification Portal To PESI To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Nemertea Collection To ITIS | |||||||||||||||||||
| Notes |
Distribution: Artic south to Cape Cod and east of Long Island Sound [details] Habitat: infralittoral of the Gulf and estuary [details] Synonymy: Borlasia gesserensis (partim) = Lineus ruber Gordius gesserensis (partim) = Lineus ruber Gordius minor (partim) = Lineus ruber Lineus gesserensis (partim) = Lineus ruber Lineus obscurus (partim) may be synonym to Lineus ruber , but there still is some uncertainty about the genusname of the first mentionned species [details] | |||||||||||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:122536 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Taxonomic Edit history |
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| Citation: Gibson, R. (2013). Lineus ruber (Müller, 1774). 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=122536 on 2013-05-20 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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