Nemertea

Parborlasia corrugatus

Tubulanus annulatus, common species in Scandinavia. Specimen found in Norway (dredging)

Taxonavigation

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Amorphea
Cladus: Obazoa
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Cladus: Filozoa
Cladus: Choanozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: ParaHoxozoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Spiralia
Superphylum: Lophotrochozoa
Phylum: Nemertea
Classes: Anopla – Enopla
Genera incertae sedis: Arhynchonemertes

Name

Nemertea Schultze, 1851

References

Additional references

• Andrade, S.C.S., Strand, M., Schwartz, M., Chen, H., Kajihara, H., von Döhren, J., Sun, S., Junoy, J., Thiel, M., Norenburg, J.L., Turbeville, J.M., Giribet, G. & Sundberg, P. 2012. Disentangling ribbon worm relationships: multi-locus analysis supports traditional classification of the phylum Nemertea. 2012. Cladistics 28(2): 141–159. DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-0031.2011.00376.x
• Andrade, S.C., Montenegro, H., Strand, M., Schwartz M.L., Kajihara, H., Norenburg, J.L., Turbeville, J.M., Sundberg, P. & Giribet, G. 2014. A transcriptomic approach to ribbon worm systematics (Nemertea): resolving the pilidiophora problem. Molecular Biology and Evolution 31(12): 3206–3215. DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msu253
• Chernyshev, A.V. 2021. An updated classification of the phylum Nemertea. Invertebrate Zoology 18(3): 188–196. DOI: 10.15298/invertzool.18.3.01 .
• Ellison, C.I., Frey, M.R., Sanford, E. & Maslakova, S.A. 2024. Ribbon worms (phylum Nemertea) from Bodega Bay, California: A largely undescribed diversity. ZooKeys 1204: 15–64. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1204.117869 Reference page. 
• Gonzalez-Cueto, J., Quiroga, S. & Norenburg, J. 2014. A shore-based preliminary survey of marine ribbon worms (Nemertea) from the Caribbean coast of Colombia. ZooKeys 439: 83–108. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.439.5965 Reference page. 
• Kvist, S., Laumer, C.E., Junoy, J. & Giribet, G. 2014. New insights into the phylogeny, systematics and DNA barcoding of Nemertea. Invertebrate Systematics 28(3): 287–308. DOI: 10.1071/IS13061 . Reference page. 
• Mendes, C.B., Matthews-Cascon, H. & Norenburg, J. 2016. New records of ribbon worms (Nemertea) from Ceará, Northeast Brazil. Zootaxa 4061(2): 146–156. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4061.2.4 Reference page. 
• Strand, M., Hedström, M., Seth, H., McEvoy, E.G., Jacobsson, E., Göransson, U., Andersson, H.S. & Sundberg, P. 2016. The Bacterial (Vibrio alginolyticus) Production of Tetrodotoxin in the Ribbon Worm Lineus longissimus – Just a False Positive? Marine Drugs 14(4): 63. DOI: 10.3390/md14040063
• Strand, M., Norenburg, J. Alfaya, J.E., Fernández-Álvarez, F.Á., 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. Zoologica Scripta 48(1): 118–119. DOI: 10.1111/zsc.12317 Reference page. 
• Thollesson, M. & Norenburg, J.L. 2003. Ribbon worm relationships: a phylogeny of the phylum Nemertea. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London (B), 270: 407–415. DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2002.2254 JSTOR PDF

Vernacular names

• Alemannisch: Schnuerwirmer
• Boarisch: Schnurwyrmer
• беларуская: Немертыны
• Deutsch: Schnurwürmer
• Ελληνικά: Νημερτίνοι
• English: Ribbon Worms
• eesti: Kärssussid
• suomi: Limamadot
• Nordfriisk: Tuumwirmer
• français: Némertes
• hrvatski: Vrpčari
• magyar: Zsinórférgek
• italiano: Nemertini
• 日本語: 紐形動物門
• latviešu: Nemertīntārpi
• македонски: Врвчари
• polski: Wstężnice
• русский: Немертины
• davvisámegiella: Nemertiner
• slovenščina: Nitkarji