Turbellarians taxon details
Rhynchomesostoma rostratum (Müller, 1774) Luther, 1904
481276 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:481276)
accepted
Species
Dalyellia velox (Dalyell, 1814) Johnston, 1845 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Derostoma rostratum (Müller, 1774) Dugès, 1830 · unaccepted > superseded combination
Fasciola rostrata Müller, 1774 · unaccepted > superseded combination
Mesostoma rostratum (Müller, 1774) Ehrenberg, 1836 · unaccepted > superseded combination
Mesostomum montanum Graff, 1875 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Mesostomum rostratum · unaccepted
Mesostomum variabile Weissmann, 1864 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Mesostomum variable · unaccepted > misspelling - incorrect subsequent spelling
Mesostomum wandae Schmidt, 1858 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Planaria rostrata (Müller, 1774) Müller, 1776 · unaccepted > superseded combination
Planaria velox Dalyell, 1814 · unaccepted > superseded combination
Turbella rostrata (Müller, 1774) Diesing, 1862 · unaccepted
Turbella wandae (Schmidt, 1858) Diesing, 1862 · unaccepted
recent only
(of Fasciola rostrata Müller, 1774) Müller, O. F. (1773-1774). <i>Vermium terrestrium et fluviatilium, seu animalium infusoriorum, helminthicorum, et testaceorum, non marinorum, succincta historia</i>. <em>[Book].</em> Vol. 1: 1-136 Infusoria [1773] / Vol1 [part 2] 1-78 Helminthica 1-72 [1774] ; Vol. 2: 1-214 Testacea + index 8 pp. [1774]. Havniæ (Copenhagen) & Lipsiæ (Leipzig): Heineck & Faber., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/50344
page(s): Pars altera: p. 65 [details]
page(s): Pars altera: p. 65 [details]
Tyler, S., Artois, T.; Schilling, S.; Hooge, M.; Bush, L.F. (eds) (2006-2024). World List of turbellarian worms: Acoelomorpha, Catenulida, Rhabditophora. Rhynchomesostoma rostratum (Müller, 1774) Luther, 1904. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/turbellarians/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=481276 on 2025-11-13
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original description
(of Mesostomum montanum Graff, 1875) Graff, L. von. (1875). Neue Mittheilungen über Turbellarien. <em>Zeitschrift für wissenschaftliche Zoologie.</em> 25: 408-424. Plates 27–28.
page(s): 417–418 [details]
original description (of Mesostomum variabile Weissmann, 1864) Weissmann, A. (1864). Zur Histologie der Muskeln. <em>Zeitschr. f. rat, Medicin. 3 Reihe.</em> 23: 33-34. Leipzig u. Heidelberg 1864.
page(s): 33 [details]
original description (of Mesostomum wandae Schmidt, 1858) Schmidt, O. (1858). Die Rhabdocoelen Strudelwürmer aus den Umgebungen von Krakau. <em>Denkschriften der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften. Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftlichen Classe.</em> 15: 20-46, tab 1-3.
page(s): 33–34 [details]
original description (of Planaria velox Dalyell, 1814) Dalyell, J. G. (1814). Observations on some interesting phenomena in animal physiology, exhibited by several species of planaria. <em>Edinburgh.</em> 8, 146 pag. und 1 tab.
page(s): 127–133 [details]
original description (of Fasciola rostrata Müller, 1774) Müller, O. F. (1773-1774). <i>Vermium terrestrium et fluviatilium, seu animalium infusoriorum, helminthicorum, et testaceorum, non marinorum, succincta historia</i>. <em>[Book].</em> Vol. 1: 1-136 Infusoria [1773] / Vol1 [part 2] 1-78 Helminthica 1-72 [1774] ; Vol. 2: 1-214 Testacea + index 8 pp. [1774]. Havniæ (Copenhagen) & Lipsiæ (Leipzig): Heineck & Faber., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/50344
page(s): Pars altera: p. 65 [details]
new combination reference Luther, A. (1904). Die Eumesostominen. <em>Zeitschrift für wissenschaftliche Zoologie.</em> 77: 1–273.
page(s): 158 [details]
ecology source Korgina, E. M. (1986). Состав и численность турбеллярий прибрежной зоны рыбинского водохранилища. (Composition and abundance of turbellarians in the coastal zone of the Rybinsk reservoir). <em>Биология внутренних вод (Biology of inland waters).</em> 70: 32–37. [details] Available for editors
ecology source Korgina, E. M. (1989). Фауна турбеллярий водоемов бассейна верхней Волги (Turbellarian fauna of reservoirs of the upper Volga basin). <em>Биология, систематика и функциональная морфология пресноводных животных (Biology, systematics, and functional morphology of freshwater animals).</em> 56 (59): 3–17. [details] Available for editors
basis of record (of Mesostomum rostratum) Siebold, C.T. von. (1848). Lehrbuch der vergleichenden Anatomie der wirbellosen Thiere. <em>In: Von Siebold & Stannius, Lehrbuch der vergleichenden Anatomie.</em> 1. Teil. Wirbellose Thiere., available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.10707
page(s): 163 [details]
basis of record (of Mesostomum variable) Ferguson F.F., Hayes W.J. jr. (1941). A synopsis of the genus Mesostoma Ehrenberg 1835. <em>Journal of the Elisha Mitchell Scientific Society.</em> 57(1): 1–52.
page(s): 41 [details] Available for editors
additional source (of Mesostomum rostratum) Vanhöffen, E. (1897). Ufer- und Grundfauna. <em>Die Fauna und Flora Grönlands. Grönland-Expedition der Gesellschaft für Erdkunde zu Berlin 1891-1893 unter Leitung von Erich von Drygalski. Zweiter Band (I). Die Fauna und Flora Grönlands.</em> Zweiter Abschnit. Wirbellose Tiere und Planktonpflanzen. V. Kapittel. pp. 177–253.
page(s): 225 [details]
additional source (of Mesostoma rostratum (Müller, 1774) Ehrenberg, 1836) Hallez, P. (1879). Contributions a l'histoire naturelle des Turbellariés. <em>Travaux de l'institut zoologique de Lille et de la station marine de Wimereux.</em> 2e Édition. Imprimerie L. Danel. Lille. 213 pp, 11 plates.
page(s): 21, 56, 73, 83, 131, 134; Tab. I: Fig. 9-11, Tab. VI: Fig. 5 & 19, Tab. X: Fig. 24, Tab. XI: Fig. 19-26.; note: Refers to specimens of what is now Strongylostoma radiata that were wrongly identified by Hallez (see Graff, 1882: p.313) [details]
additional source (of Mesostomum wandae Schmidt, 1858) Nasonov, N. V. (1877). Beschreibung der rhabdocoelen Turbellarien aus der Umgebung von Moskau. Berichte d. kais Ges d Liebhaber d Naturwiss, Anthropol. u. Ethnographie in Moskau. Moskau, vol 22, issue 2, 4, p44-47, tab XI fig2-6
page(s): 44–45 [details]
source of synonymy (of Mesostomum wandae Schmidt, 1858) 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
page(s): 299–300 [details]
source of synonymy (of Mesostomum variabile Weissmann, 1864) 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
page(s): 299–300 [details]
source of synonymy (of Mesostomum montanum Graff, 1875) 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
page(s): 299–300 [details]
source of synonymy (of Dalyellia velox (Dalyell, 1814) Johnston, 1845) 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
page(s): 299–300 [details]
new combination reference (of Dalyellia velox (Dalyell, 1814) Johnston, 1845) Johnston, G. (1845846). An index to the British annelides. <em>The Annals and magazine of natural history including zoology, botany, and geology.</em> 16: 433-462.
page(s): 438 [details]
new combination reference (of Mesostoma rostratum (Müller, 1774) Ehrenberg, 1836) Ehrenberg, C. G. (1836). Die Akalephen des Rothen Meeres und der Organismus der Medusen der Ostsee erläutert und auf Systematik angewendet. <em>Abhandlungen der Königlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften in Berlin.</em> 111 pp.
page(s): 66 [details]
new combination reference (of Planaria rostrata (Müller, 1774) Müller, 1776) Müller, O.F. (1776). Zoologiae Danicae Prodromus, seu Animalium Daniae et Norvegiae Indigenarum characters, nomina, et synonyma imprimis popularium. [Prodromus of Danish Zoology, or the characters, names, and synonyms of the indigenous animals of Denmark and Norway, especially of the popular ones.]. <em>Typis Hallageriis, Havniae.</em> 32: 1-282., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/47550
page(s): 222 [details]
new combination reference (of Turbella rostrata (Müller, 1774) Diesing, 1862) Diesing K.M. (1862). Revision der Turbellarien. Abteilung: Rhabdocoelen. <em>Sitzungsberichte der mathematisch-naturwissenschaftliche Classe der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften.</em> 45: 191–318., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2010837
page(s): 220 [details]
new combination reference (of Turbella wandae (Schmidt, 1858) Diesing, 1862) Diesing K.M. (1862). Revision der Turbellarien. Abteilung: Rhabdocoelen. <em>Sitzungsberichte der mathematisch-naturwissenschaftliche Classe der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften.</em> 45: 191–318., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2010837
page(s): 222 [details]
new combination reference (of Derostoma rostratum (Müller, 1774) Dugès, 1830) Dugès, A. (1830). Aperçu de quelques observations nouvelles sur les Planaires et plusieurs genres voisins. <em>Annales des Sciences naturelles.</em> 1. Ser. Tom. 21: 72-91., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/32172479
page(s): 79–80 [details]
page(s): 417–418 [details]
original description (of Mesostomum variabile Weissmann, 1864) Weissmann, A. (1864). Zur Histologie der Muskeln. <em>Zeitschr. f. rat, Medicin. 3 Reihe.</em> 23: 33-34. Leipzig u. Heidelberg 1864.
page(s): 33 [details]
original description (of Mesostomum wandae Schmidt, 1858) Schmidt, O. (1858). Die Rhabdocoelen Strudelwürmer aus den Umgebungen von Krakau. <em>Denkschriften der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften. Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftlichen Classe.</em> 15: 20-46, tab 1-3.
page(s): 33–34 [details]
original description (of Planaria velox Dalyell, 1814) Dalyell, J. G. (1814). Observations on some interesting phenomena in animal physiology, exhibited by several species of planaria. <em>Edinburgh.</em> 8, 146 pag. und 1 tab.
page(s): 127–133 [details]
original description (of Fasciola rostrata Müller, 1774) Müller, O. F. (1773-1774). <i>Vermium terrestrium et fluviatilium, seu animalium infusoriorum, helminthicorum, et testaceorum, non marinorum, succincta historia</i>. <em>[Book].</em> Vol. 1: 1-136 Infusoria [1773] / Vol1 [part 2] 1-78 Helminthica 1-72 [1774] ; Vol. 2: 1-214 Testacea + index 8 pp. [1774]. Havniæ (Copenhagen) & Lipsiæ (Leipzig): Heineck & Faber., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/50344
page(s): Pars altera: p. 65 [details]
new combination reference Luther, A. (1904). Die Eumesostominen. <em>Zeitschrift für wissenschaftliche Zoologie.</em> 77: 1–273.
page(s): 158 [details]
ecology source Korgina, E. M. (1986). Состав и численность турбеллярий прибрежной зоны рыбинского водохранилища. (Composition and abundance of turbellarians in the coastal zone of the Rybinsk reservoir). <em>Биология внутренних вод (Biology of inland waters).</em> 70: 32–37. [details] Available for editors
ecology source Korgina, E. M. (1989). Фауна турбеллярий водоемов бассейна верхней Волги (Turbellarian fauna of reservoirs of the upper Volga basin). <em>Биология, систематика и функциональная морфология пресноводных животных (Biology, systematics, and functional morphology of freshwater animals).</em> 56 (59): 3–17. [details] Available for editors
basis of record (of Mesostomum rostratum) Siebold, C.T. von. (1848). Lehrbuch der vergleichenden Anatomie der wirbellosen Thiere. <em>In: Von Siebold & Stannius, Lehrbuch der vergleichenden Anatomie.</em> 1. Teil. Wirbellose Thiere., available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.10707
page(s): 163 [details]
basis of record (of Mesostomum variable) Ferguson F.F., Hayes W.J. jr. (1941). A synopsis of the genus Mesostoma Ehrenberg 1835. <em>Journal of the Elisha Mitchell Scientific Society.</em> 57(1): 1–52.
page(s): 41 [details] Available for editors
additional source (of Mesostomum rostratum) Vanhöffen, E. (1897). Ufer- und Grundfauna. <em>Die Fauna und Flora Grönlands. Grönland-Expedition der Gesellschaft für Erdkunde zu Berlin 1891-1893 unter Leitung von Erich von Drygalski. Zweiter Band (I). Die Fauna und Flora Grönlands.</em> Zweiter Abschnit. Wirbellose Tiere und Planktonpflanzen. V. Kapittel. pp. 177–253.
page(s): 225 [details]
additional source (of Mesostoma rostratum (Müller, 1774) Ehrenberg, 1836) Hallez, P. (1879). Contributions a l'histoire naturelle des Turbellariés. <em>Travaux de l'institut zoologique de Lille et de la station marine de Wimereux.</em> 2e Édition. Imprimerie L. Danel. Lille. 213 pp, 11 plates.
page(s): 21, 56, 73, 83, 131, 134; Tab. I: Fig. 9-11, Tab. VI: Fig. 5 & 19, Tab. X: Fig. 24, Tab. XI: Fig. 19-26.; note: Refers to specimens of what is now Strongylostoma radiata that were wrongly identified by Hallez (see Graff, 1882: p.313) [details]
additional source (of Mesostomum wandae Schmidt, 1858) Nasonov, N. V. (1877). Beschreibung der rhabdocoelen Turbellarien aus der Umgebung von Moskau. Berichte d. kais Ges d Liebhaber d Naturwiss, Anthropol. u. Ethnographie in Moskau. Moskau, vol 22, issue 2, 4, p44-47, tab XI fig2-6
page(s): 44–45 [details]
source of synonymy (of Mesostomum wandae Schmidt, 1858) 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
page(s): 299–300 [details]
source of synonymy (of Mesostomum variabile Weissmann, 1864) 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
page(s): 299–300 [details]
source of synonymy (of Mesostomum montanum Graff, 1875) 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
page(s): 299–300 [details]
source of synonymy (of Dalyellia velox (Dalyell, 1814) Johnston, 1845) 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
page(s): 299–300 [details]
new combination reference (of Dalyellia velox (Dalyell, 1814) Johnston, 1845) Johnston, G. (1845846). An index to the British annelides. <em>The Annals and magazine of natural history including zoology, botany, and geology.</em> 16: 433-462.
page(s): 438 [details]
new combination reference (of Mesostoma rostratum (Müller, 1774) Ehrenberg, 1836) Ehrenberg, C. G. (1836). Die Akalephen des Rothen Meeres und der Organismus der Medusen der Ostsee erläutert und auf Systematik angewendet. <em>Abhandlungen der Königlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften in Berlin.</em> 111 pp.
page(s): 66 [details]
new combination reference (of Planaria rostrata (Müller, 1774) Müller, 1776) Müller, O.F. (1776). Zoologiae Danicae Prodromus, seu Animalium Daniae et Norvegiae Indigenarum characters, nomina, et synonyma imprimis popularium. [Prodromus of Danish Zoology, or the characters, names, and synonyms of the indigenous animals of Denmark and Norway, especially of the popular ones.]. <em>Typis Hallageriis, Havniae.</em> 32: 1-282., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/47550
page(s): 222 [details]
new combination reference (of Turbella rostrata (Müller, 1774) Diesing, 1862) Diesing K.M. (1862). Revision der Turbellarien. Abteilung: Rhabdocoelen. <em>Sitzungsberichte der mathematisch-naturwissenschaftliche Classe der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften.</em> 45: 191–318., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2010837
page(s): 220 [details]
new combination reference (of Turbella wandae (Schmidt, 1858) Diesing, 1862) Diesing K.M. (1862). Revision der Turbellarien. Abteilung: Rhabdocoelen. <em>Sitzungsberichte der mathematisch-naturwissenschaftliche Classe der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften.</em> 45: 191–318., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2010837
page(s): 222 [details]
new combination reference (of Derostoma rostratum (Müller, 1774) Dugès, 1830) Dugès, A. (1830). Aperçu de quelques observations nouvelles sur les Planaires et plusieurs genres voisins. <em>Annales des Sciences naturelles.</em> 1. Ser. Tom. 21: 72-91., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/32172479
page(s): 79–80 [details]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication) (from synonym Dalyellia velox (Dalyell, 1814) Johnston, 1845)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication) (from synonym Turbella wandae (Schmidt, 1858) Diesing, 1862)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (10 publications) (from synonym Fasciola rostrata Müller, 1774)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (13 publications) (from synonym Planaria rostrata (Müller, 1774) Müller, 1776)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (26 publications)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (4 publications) (from synonym Turbella rostrata (Müller, 1774) Diesing, 1862)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (8 publications) (from synonym Derostoma rostratum (Müller, 1774) Dugès, 1830)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Rhynchomesostoma rostratum)
To GenBank (4 nucleotides; 1 proteins)
To PESI
To ITIS
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication) (from synonym Turbella wandae (Schmidt, 1858) Diesing, 1862)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (10 publications) (from synonym Fasciola rostrata Müller, 1774)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (13 publications) (from synonym Planaria rostrata (Müller, 1774) Müller, 1776)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (26 publications)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (4 publications) (from synonym Turbella rostrata (Müller, 1774) Diesing, 1862)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (8 publications) (from synonym Derostoma rostratum (Müller, 1774) Dugès, 1830)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Rhynchomesostoma rostratum)
To GenBank (4 nucleotides; 1 proteins)
To PESI
To ITIS
From editor or global species database
