WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species - Ramphogordius sanguineus (Rathke, 1799)

Ramphogordius sanguineus (Rathke, 1799)
AphiaID: 155839

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Nemertina (Phylum) > Anopla (Class) > Heteronemertea (Subclass) > Lineidae (Family) > Ramphogordius (Genus)

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)

Sources

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]

Vernacular
Names

Language	Name
English	social lineus	[details]

Distribution

Brandy Cove [details]
British Isles (from synonym) [details]
Digdeguash Estuary [details]
Gulf of Maine [details]
North West Atlantic (from synonym) [details]

Links

To GenBank
Marine Life Information Network - UK
To Barcode of Life (12 barcodes)

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]

Edit
history

Date	action	by
2005-05-03 13:42:47Z	created	Gibson, Raymond

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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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