WoRMS taxon details
Zygonemertes virescens (Verrill, 1879)
AphiaID: 156323
AphiaID: 156323
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Nemertea (Phylum) > Enopla (Class) > Hoplonemertea (Subclass) > Monostilifera (Order) > Eumonostilifera (Suborder) > Amphiporidae (Family) > Zygonemertes (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | |||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||
| Rank | Species | |||||||
| Parent | Zygonemertes Montgomery, 1897 | |||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Amphiporus agilis (synonym) Amphiporus virescens (synonym) Nemertes verrilli (synonym) Ophionemertes agilis (synonym) | |||||||
| Sources |
basis of record: ITIS database, available online at http://www.itis.gov [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: 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: 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: Gibson, R. (2005) Nemertina DB. Liverpool John Moore University, UK [details] [view taxon] | |||||||
| Distribution | Gulf of Maine [details] Gulf of Mexico [details] North West Atlantic [details] | |||||||
| Links | To Barcode of Life (1 barcode) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (23 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (12 nucleotides; 5 proteins) 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 40 mm by 2 mm [details] Distribution: Bay of Fundy south at least to Chesapeake Bay [details] Habitat: benthic, living under rocks or in burrows in soft substrata, or crawling among algae, hydroids, or in bottom debris [details] remark: species fragment easily when handled [details] Reproduction: sexes are separate; fertilization is external for most species. Asexual reproduction also occurs by fragmentation [details] | |||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:156323 | |||||||
| Taxonomic Edit history |
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| Citation: Gibson, R. (2013). Zygonemertes virescens (Verrill, 1879). 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=156323 on 2013-05-23 | ||||||||
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