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WoRMS taxon details
Ramphogordius sanguineus (Rathke, 1799) AphiaID: 155839
| Status | | accepted |
Record status | | Checked by Taxonomic Editor |
| Rank | | Species |
| Parent | | Ramphogordius Rathke, 1843 |
Synonymised taxa | |
Lineus communis (synonym)
Lineus nigricans Bürger 1893 (synonym)
Lineus nigricans var. striatus (synonym)
Lineus nigricnus (synonym)
Lineus ruber f. ß (synonym)
Lineus sanguineus (Rathke, 1799) (synonym)
Planaria sanguinea (synonym)
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basis of record: ITIS database, available online at http://www.itis.gov [details]
basis of record: 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]
basis of record: Brunel, P., L. Bosse, and G. Lamarche. 1998. Catalogue of the marine invertebrates of the estuary and Gulf of St. Lawrence. Canadian Special Publication of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 126. 405 p. [details]
basis of record: 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]
basis of record: Gosner, K.L. 1978. A field guide to the Atlantic seashore. The Peterson Field Guide Series. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, MA. 329 p. [details]
basis of record: 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]
basis of record: Miner, R. W. 1950. Field book of seashore life. G.P. Putnam & Sons. New York. 888 p. [details]
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Vernacular Names | | | Language | Name | | |
English |
social lineus |
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| Distribution | | Brandy Cove [details]
British Isles (from synonym) [details]
Digdeguash Estuary [details]
Gulf of Maine [details]
North West Atlantic (from synonym) [details]
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| Links | | To GenBank
Marine Life Information Network - UK
To Barcode of Life (12 barcodes)
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| 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 150 mm by 3 mm [details]
Distribution: western slope of Newfoundland, including the southern part of the Strait of Belle Isle but excluding the upper 50m in the area southwest of NL; Cobscook Bay to Chesapeake Bay [details]
Distribution: Bay of Fundy to Chesapeake Bay [details]
Habitat: intertidal [details]
Habitat: benthic, living under rocks or in burrows in soft substrata, or crawling among algae, hydroids, or in bottom debris [details]
remark: species used to be named Lineus socialis; species fragment easily when handled [details]
Reproduction: sexes are separate; fertilization is external for most species. Asexual reproduction also occurs by fragmentation [details]
Synonymy: Borlasia octoculata (partim) = Ramphogordius sanguineus
Gordius oculatus (partim) probably = Ramphogordius sanguineus , but there still is some uncertainty about the genus name of the first mentionned species
Lineus oculatus (partim) probably = Ramphogordius sanguineus, but there still is some uncertainty about the genus name of the first mentionned species [details]
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| | | Citation: Gibson, R. (2009). Ramphogordius sanguineus (Rathke, 1799). In: Gibson, R. (Ed) (2009). World Nemertina database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=155839 on 2010-07-30 |
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