WoRMS taxon details
Oerstedia dorsalis (Abildgaard, 1806)
AphiaID: 122817
AphiaID: 122817
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Nemertea (Phylum) > Enopla (Class) > Hoplonemertea (Subclass) > Monostilifera (Order) > Eumonostilifera (Suborder) > Oerstediidae (Family) > Oerstedia (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | ||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||
| Rank | Species | ||||||||||
| Parent | Oerstedia Quatrefages, 1846 | ||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Astemma gordius Parfitt, 1867 Hecate dorsalis (synonym) Oerstdia dorsalis (synonym) Oerstedia dorsalis var. albolineata (synonym) Oerstedia dorsalis var. cincta (synonym) Oerstedia dorsalis var. marmorata (synonym) Oerstedia dorsalis var. viridis (synonym) Oerstedia nigrimaculata (Gibson, 1988) (junior synonym) Oerstedia tubicola Quartrefages, 1846 (synonym) Planaria dorsalis (synonym) Polia farinosa Beneden, 1861 (synonym) | ||||||||||
| Sources |
original description: Abildgaard, P.C., 1806. In: O.F. Müller, Zoologia Danica, 4. [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: 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: 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] 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: 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] additional source: Norenburg, J. L. 2009. Nemertea of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 553–558 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas. [details] from synonym: Kajihara H, Chernyshev AV, Sun S-C, Sundberg P, Crandall FB. 2008. Checklist of nemertean genera and species (Nemertea) published between 1995 and 2007. Spec Diver. 13:245–274. [details] [view taxon] | ||||||||||
| Vernacular Names |
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| Direct child taxa [show all] | Forma Oerstedia dorsalis f. A accepted as Oerstedia striata Sundberg, 1988 Variety Oerstedia dorsalis var. albolineata accepted as Oerstedia dorsalis (Abildgaard, 1806) Variety Oerstedia dorsalis var. cincta accepted as Oerstedia dorsalis (Abildgaard, 1806) Variety Oerstedia dorsalis var. marmorata accepted as Oerstedia dorsalis (Abildgaard, 1806) Variety Oerstedia dorsalis var. viridis accepted as Oerstedia dorsalis (Abildgaard, 1806) | ||||||||||
| Environment | marine | ||||||||||
| Distribution | Belgian Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Cobscook Bay [details] European waters (ERMS scope) [details] Gulf of Maine [details] Gulf of Mexico [details] Indian Point [details] Irish Exclusive economic Zone [details] North East Atlantic [details] North West Atlantic [details] Portuguese Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Spanish Exclusive Economic Zone [details] United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Wimereux [details] | ||||||||||
| Links | To Barcode of Life (85 barcodes) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (31 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (215 nucleotides; 71 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 20 mm by 2 mm [details] Distribution: Bay of Fundy to Cape Hatteras, including Cobscook Bay [details] Habitat: benthic, living under rocks or in burrows in soft substrata, or crawling among algae, hydroids, or in bottom debris [details] Reproduction: sexes are separate; fertilization is external for most species. Asexual reproduction also occurs by fragmentation [details] Synonymy: Oerstedia maculata (partim) = Oerstedia dorsalis [details] Taxonomy: Suborder: Monostilifera, according to Trott (2004).. species fragment easily when handled [details] | ||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:122817 | ||||||||||
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| Citation: Gibson, R. (2013). Oerstedia dorsalis (Abildgaard, 1806). 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=122817 on 2013-05-20 | |||||||||||
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