Turbellarians taxon details
Prostoma Dugès, 1828
162630 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:162630)
accepted
Genus
Prostomum Dugès, 1828 · unaccepted > nomen oblitum (nomen oblitum, the correct name...)
nomen oblitum, the correct name is actually Prostoma: see note.
- Species Prostoma kefersteinii Claparède, 1863 accepted as Polycystis naegelii Kölliker, 1845 (Synonym)
- Species Prostoma lineare Schmidt, 1848 accepted as Prostoma lineare Örsted, 1843 accepted as Gyratrix hermaphroditus Ehrenberg, 1831 (Synonym)
- Species Prostoma lineare Örsted, 1843 accepted as Gyratrix hermaphroditus Ehrenberg, 1831 (Synonym)
- Species Prostoma littorale Oersted, 1843 accepted as Macrorhynchus croceus (Fabricius, 1826) Graff, 1882 accepted as Graffiellus croceus (Fabricius, 1826) Hornung, 2016 (Synonym)
- Species Prostoma suboviforme Ørsted, 1843 accepted as Graffiellus croceus (Fabricius, 1826) Hornung, 2016 (nomen nudum)
- Species Prostoma vittatum (Frey & Leuckart, 1847) Maitland, 1851 accepted as Vortex vittatus Frey & Leuckart, 1847 accepted as Plagiostomum vittatum (Frey & Leuckart, 1847) Jenssen, 1878 (unaccepted > superseded combination)
neuter
Dugès, A. (1828). Recherches sur l'organisation et les moeurs des Planariées. <em>Annales des Sciences Naturelles.</em> 15: 139–187. Plates 4–5., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/6011487
page(s): 140 [details]
page(s): 140 [details]
Turbellarians (2025). Prostoma Dugès, 1828. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/turbellarians/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=162630 on 2026-02-05
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Martinez, Olga
original description
Dugès, A. (1828). Recherches sur l'organisation et les moeurs des Planariées. <em>Annales des Sciences Naturelles.</em> 15: 139–187. Plates 4–5., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/6011487
page(s): 140 [details]
original description (of Prostomum Dugès, 1828) Dugès, A. (1828). Recherches sur l'organisation et les moeurs des Planariées. <em>Annales des Sciences Naturelles.</em> 15: 139–187. Plates 4–5., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/6011487 [details]
taxonomy source Graff, L., von. (1882). Monographie der Turbellarien 1. Rhabdocoelida. <em>[Book].</em> 1-442, Verlag Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig., available online at https://books.google.com/books/about/Monographie_der_Turbellarien.html?id=LT0hAQAAMAAJ [details]
basis of record Kajihara, H. (2025). A taxonomic revision of the freshwater monostiliferous hoplonemertean genus Prostoma Dugès, 1828 (Nemertea: Eumonostilifera): a radical solution or an over-lumping?. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 5646 (4): 451–500. [details] Available for editors
basis of record Gibson, R.; Moore, J. (1976). Freshwater nemerteans. <em>Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society.</em> 58(3): 177–218., available online at https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1096-3642.1976.tb00828.x [details] Available for editors
status source 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
status source Chernyshev, A. V. (2005). System of families of Enoplan nemerteans of the order Eumonostilifera (Nemertea: Enopla). <em>Russian Journal of Marine Biology.</em> 31(suppl. 1): 27–33., available online at http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11179-006-0012-6 [details] Available for editors
basis of record (of Prostomum Dugès, 1828) Tom Artois; Ernest Schockaert. (2005-2017). World database of Proseriata and Kalyptorhynchia. (look up in IMIS) [details]
status source (of Prostomum Dugès, 1828) Graff, L. von. (1913). Turbellaria II. Rhabdocoelida. [Das Tierreich, Eine Zusammenstellung und Kennzeichnung der rezenten Tierformen Heft 35/1913]. Berlin, Verlag von R. Friedländer und Sohn, Ausgegeben im Juni 1913., 484 pages. [reprinted 1966, Verlag Von J. Cramer W], available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/883047 [details]
page(s): 140 [details]
original description (of Prostomum Dugès, 1828) Dugès, A. (1828). Recherches sur l'organisation et les moeurs des Planariées. <em>Annales des Sciences Naturelles.</em> 15: 139–187. Plates 4–5., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/6011487 [details]
taxonomy source Graff, L., von. (1882). Monographie der Turbellarien 1. Rhabdocoelida. <em>[Book].</em> 1-442, Verlag Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig., available online at https://books.google.com/books/about/Monographie_der_Turbellarien.html?id=LT0hAQAAMAAJ [details]
basis of record Kajihara, H. (2025). A taxonomic revision of the freshwater monostiliferous hoplonemertean genus Prostoma Dugès, 1828 (Nemertea: Eumonostilifera): a radical solution or an over-lumping?. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 5646 (4): 451–500. [details] Available for editors
basis of record Gibson, R.; Moore, J. (1976). Freshwater nemerteans. <em>Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society.</em> 58(3): 177–218., available online at https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1096-3642.1976.tb00828.x [details] Available for editors
status source 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
status source Chernyshev, A. V. (2005). System of families of Enoplan nemerteans of the order Eumonostilifera (Nemertea: Enopla). <em>Russian Journal of Marine Biology.</em> 31(suppl. 1): 27–33., available online at http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11179-006-0012-6 [details] Available for editors
basis of record (of Prostomum Dugès, 1828) Tom Artois; Ernest Schockaert. (2005-2017). World database of Proseriata and Kalyptorhynchia. (look up in IMIS) [details]
status source (of Prostomum Dugès, 1828) Graff, L. von. (1913). Turbellaria II. Rhabdocoelida. [Das Tierreich, Eine Zusammenstellung und Kennzeichnung der rezenten Tierformen Heft 35/1913]. Berlin, Verlag von R. Friedländer und Sohn, Ausgegeben im Juni 1913., 484 pages. [reprinted 1966, Verlag Von J. Cramer W], available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/883047 [details]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Prostoma)
To Genbank
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Nemertea Collection (2 records)
To ITIS
To Genbank
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Nemertea Collection (2 records)
To ITIS
From editor or global species database
Image from typetaxon