WoRMS name details
Meckelia somatotomus Leuckart, 1828
599789 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:599789)
unaccepted (Synonym)
Species
Meckelia Leuckart, 1828 accepted as Cerebratulus [Renier], [1804]
marine
Leuckart, Friedrich Sigismund. (1828). Breves animalium quorundum maxima ex parte marinorum descriptiones. <em>[book, perhaps thesis].</em> Heidelberg, Osswald, 24 pp., available online at https://www.google.com/books/edition/Breves_animalium_quorundam_maxima_ex_par/ptxlAAAAcAAJ
page(s): 17 [details]
page(s): 17 [details]
Type locality contained in Mediterranean Sea - Western Basin
type locality contained in Mediterranean Sea - Western Basin [details]
Norenburg, J.; Chernyshev, A.; Kajihara, H.; Maslakova, S. (2026). World Nemertea Database. Meckelia somatotomus Leuckart, 1828. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=599789 on 2026-06-30
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Nomenclature
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Leuckart, Friedrich Sigismund. (1828). Breves animalium quorundum maxima ex parte marinorum descriptiones. <em>[book, perhaps thesis].</em> Heidelberg, Osswald, 24 pp., available online at https://www.google.com/books/edition/Breves_animalium_quorundam_maxima_ex_par/ptxlAAAAcAAJ
page(s): 17 [details]
basis of record Gibson, R. (1995). Nemertean genera and species of the world: an annotated checklist of original names and description citations, synonyms, current taxonomic status, habitats and recorded zoogeographic distribution. <em>Journal of Natural History.</em> 29(2): 271–561., available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/00222939500770161 [details] Available for editors
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page(s): 17 [details]
basis of record Gibson, R. (1995). Nemertean genera and species of the world: an annotated checklist of original names and description citations, synonyms, current taxonomic status, habitats and recorded zoogeographic distribution. <em>Journal of Natural History.</em> 29(2): 271–561., available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/00222939500770161 [details] Available for editors
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Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
