WoRMS taxon details
Nemertea
- Class Arhynchocoela
- Class Hoplonemertea
- Superclass Neonemertea
- Class Palaeonemertea
- Class Pilidiophora
- Superclass Pronemertea
- Class Anopla accepted as Nemertea incertae sedis (dismissed, no longer used: paraphyletic)
- Class Enopla accepted as Hoplonemertea (dismissed, no longer used)
- Order Mesonemertini accepted as Palaeonemertea (synonym)
- Order Protonemertini accepted as Palaeonemertea (synonym)
- Class Nemertea incertae sedis (temporary name)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent + fossil
Not documented
WoRMS (2025). Nemertea. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=152391 on 2025-03-31
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Nomenclature
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Bürger, O. (1897-1907). Nemertini (Schnurwürmer). In: Bronn, H. G., ed. Klassen und Ordnungen des Tierreichs. C. F. Winter, Bd. 4, Supplement: 542 pp [details] Available for editors 
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taxonomy source
Strand, M.; Norenburg, J.; Alfaya, J. E.; Ángel Fernández-Álvarez, F.; 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. <em>Zoologica Scripta.</em> 48(1): 118–119., available online at https://doi.org/10.1111/zsc.12317 [details] Available for editors [request]
taxonomy source Chernyshev, A.V. (2021). An updated classification of the phylum Nemertea. <em>Invertebrate Zoology.</em> 18(3): 188–196. [details] Available for editors [request]
[request]taxonomy source Chernyshev, A.V. (2021). An updated classification of the phylum Nemertea. <em>Invertebrate Zoology.</em> 18(3): 188–196. [details] Available for editors
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Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
| Language | Name | |
|---|---|---|
| Dutch | snoerwormen [from synonym] | [details] |
| English | ribbon wormsnemertines | [details] |
| German | Schnurwürmer | [details] |
| Japanese | 紐形動物門 | [details] |
| Swedish | slemmaskar | [details] |
To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Nemertea)
To Genbank (from synonym Nemertini)
To Genbank
To NHMUK collection (Nemertea ul; NON-TYPE; NHMUK:ecatalogue:9473963)
To The Arctic Traits Database (0 traits) (from synonym Nemertini)
To The Arctic Traits Database (23 traits)
To Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History (YPM IZ 096488)
To ITIS
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Nemertea)
To Genbank (from synonym Nemertini)
To Genbank
To NHMUK collection (Nemertea ul; NON-TYPE; NHMUK:ecatalogue:9473963)
To The Arctic Traits Database (0 traits) (from synonym Nemertini)
To The Arctic Traits Database (23 traits)
To Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History (YPM IZ 096488)
To ITIS
