World Nemertea Database - Tetrastemma elegans (Girard, 1852)

Traits taxon details

Tetrastemma elegans (Girard, 1852)

AphiaID

159505 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:159505)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Type taxon of

Hecate Girard, 1852

Parent

Tetrastemma Ehrenberg, 1831

Original name

Hecate elegans Girard, 1852

Environment

marine, ~~fresh~~, ~~terrestrial~~

Original description

(of ) Girard, C. (1852). Descriptions of two new genera and two species of Nemertes. Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History, 4: 185-186 [details] Available for editors

Taxonomic citation

Norenburg, J.; Chernyshev, A.; Kajihara, H.; Maslakova, S. (2025). World Nemertea Database. Tetrastemma elegans (Girard, 1852). Accessed through: Marine Species Traits editorial board (2025) Marine Species Traits at: https://www.marinespecies.org/traits/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=159505 on 2025-05-04

Thematic species database citation

Marine Species Traits editorial board (2025). Marine Species Traits. Tetrastemma elegans (Girard, 1852). Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/traits/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=159505 on 2025-05-04

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2005-05-30 08:27:04Z

created

Claus, Simon

2005-07-01 09:15:20Z

changed

Gibson, Raymond

[taxonomic tree]

original description (of ) Girard, C. (1852). Descriptions of two new genera and two species of Nemertes. Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History, 4: 185-186 [details] Available for editors

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., London. 693 pp. [pdf copepod and branchiuran :445-455]. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors

additional source Miner, R. W. (1950). Field book of seashore life. G.P. Putnam & Sons. 1-888. [details]

additional source 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 Gosner, K.L. (1979). A Field Guide to the Atlantic Seashore. Invertebrates and Seaweeds of the Atlantic Coast from the Bay of Fundy to Cape Hatteras. Wiley-Interscience, Boston. 329pp., figs. 1-72, pls. 1-64. [pdf copepods only]. [details] Available for editors

additional source Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS). , available online at http://www.itis.gov [details]

Present

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

Definitions

To Barcode of Life (7 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (16 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Tetrastemma elegans)
To GenBank (22 nucleotides; 11 proteins)
To ITIS