Marine Species Traits

Traits taxon details

Nemertea

To NHMUK collection (Nemertea ul; NON-TYPE; NHMUK:ecatalogue:9473963)

AphiaID

152391 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:152391)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Phylum

Parent

Animalia

Synonymised names

Nemertina · alternative representation

Direct children (9)

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Class Arhynchocoela
Class Hoplonemertea
Superclass Neonemertea
Class Palaeonemertea
Class Pilidiophora
Superclass Pronemertea
Class Anopla accepted as Nemertea incertae sedis (dismissed, no longer used: paraphyletic)
Class Enopla accepted as Hoplonemertea (dismissed, no longer used)
Class Nemertea incertae sedis (temporary name)

Environment

marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial

Fossil range

recent + fossil

Original description

Not documented

Taxonomic citation

Traits (2025). Nemertea. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/traits/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=152391 on 2025-09-12

Thematic species database citation

Marine Species Traits editorial board (2025). Marine Species Traits. Nemertea. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/traits/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=152391 on 2025-09-12

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2005-04-11 09:30:41Z

created

Cuvelier, Daphne

2010-08-20 13:20:59Z

changed

Norenburg, Jon

2020-08-07 14:08:48Z

changed

Norenburg, Jon

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taxonomy source Strand, M.; Norenburg, J.; Alfaya, J. E.; Ángel Fernández-Álvarez, F.; Andersson, H. S.; Andrade, S. C. S.; Bartolomaeus, T.; Beckers, P.; Bigatti, G.; Cherneva, I.; Chernyshev, A.; Chung, B. M.; Von Döhren, J.; Giribet, G.; Gonzalez-Cueto, J.; Herrera-Bachiller, A.; Hiebert, T.; Hookabe, N.; Junoy, J.; Kajihara, H.; Krämer, D.; Kvist, S.; Magarlamov, T. Y.; Maslakova, S.; Mendes, C. B.; Okazaki, R.; Sagorny, C.; Schwartz, M.; Sun, S.-C.; Sundberg, P.; Turbeville, J. M.; Xu, C.-M. (2018). Nemertean taxonomy—implementing changes in the higher ranks, dismissing Anopla and Enopla. <em>Zoologica Scripta.</em> 48(1): 118–119., available online at https://doi.org/10.1111/zsc.12317 [details] Available for editors

taxonomy source Chernyshev, A.V. (2021). An updated classification of the phylum Nemertea. <em>Invertebrate Zoology.</em> 18(3): 188–196. [details] Available for editors

basis of record Bürger, O. (1897-1907). Nemertini (Schnurwürmer). In: Bronn, H. G., ed. Klassen und Ordnungen des Tierreichs. C. F. Winter, Bd. 4, Supplement: 542 pp [details] Available for editors

Present

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Nemertea)
To Genbank
To NHMUK collection (Nemertea ul; NON-TYPE; NHMUK:ecatalogue:9473963)
To The Arctic Traits Database (23 traits)
To Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History (YPM IZ 096488)
To ITIS

From editor or global species database

To NHMUK collection (Nemertea ul; NON-TYPE; NHMUK:ecatalogue:9473963)

Hosted externally

Pilidium from Vietnam

Unreviewed

To Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History (YPM IZ 096488)

Hosted externally