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Lineus Sowerby, 1805

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122358  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:122358)

accepted
Genus
Lineus longissimus (Gunnerus, 1770) (type by subsequent designation)
Borlasia Oken, 1815 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym (Genus was established for B...)  
Genus was established for B angliae Oken, 1815 – now syn. with Lineus longissimus but the generic name has subsequently been used for species since transferred to several other genera. No valid Borlasia-species exist today.
Myoisophagos Riser, 1994 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Myoisophagus Riser, 1994 · unaccepted (lapsus calami)
Nemertes Cuvier, 1816 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Ophiocephalus Blainville, 1828 · unaccepted (synonym)
Ophyocephalus Chiaje, 1829 · unaccepted (synonym)
Poseidon Girard, 1852 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Ramphogordius Rathke, 1843 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym

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  1. Species Lineus alienus Bürger, 1895
  2. Species Lineus bergendali Senz, 1996
  3. Species Lineus cinereus Punnett, 1903
  4. Species Lineus coccinus Bürger, 1892
  5. Species Lineus dohrnii (Hubrecht, 1879)
  6. Species Lineus fischeri Senz, 1997
  7. Species Lineus frauenfeldi Senz, 1997
  8. Species Lineus gesserensis (O.F. Müller, 1774)
  9. Species Lineus gilbus Bürger, 1892
  10. Species Lineus hubrechti (Langerhans, 1880)
  11. Species Lineus insignis Senz, 1993
  12. Species Lineus iota Joubin, 1902
  13. Species Lineus islandicus Friedrich, 1958
  14. Species Lineus kennelii Bürger, 1892
  15. Species Lineus kolaensis Ushakov, 1928
  16. Species Lineus kristinebergensis Gering, 1912
  17. Species Lineus lacteus (Rathke, 1843)
  18. Species Lineus lobianki Bürger, 1892
  19. Species Lineus longissimus (Gunnerus, 1770)
  20. Species Lineus marisalbi Ushakov, 1926
  21. Species Lineus molochinus Bürger, 1892
  22. Species Lineus nigrobrunneus Bergendal, 1903
  23. Species Lineus parvulus Bürger, 1892
  24. Species Lineus pseudoruber (Friedrich, 1935)
  25. Species Lineus rovinjensis Senz, 1995
  26. Species Lineus ruber (Müller, 1774)
  27. Species Lineus rufocaudatus Bürger, 1892
  28. Species Lineus sainthilairi Ushakov, 1926
  29. Species Lineus sanguineus (Rathke, 1799)
  30. Species Lineus scandinaviensis Punnett, 1903
  31. Species Lineus variegatus Chapuis, 1886
  32. Species Lineus versicolor Bürger, 1892
  33. Species Lineus viridis (Müller, 1774)
  34. Species Lineus acutifrons Southern, 1913 accepted as Junoya acutifrons (Southern, 1913) (unaccepted > superseded combination)
  35. Species Lineus annulatus accepted as Tubulanus annulatus (Montagu, 1804) (synonym)
  36. Species Lineus bilineatus (Renier, 1804) accepted as Siphonenteron bilineatum Renier in Menighini, 1847 (unaccepted > superseded combination)
  37. Species Lineus bivittatus accepted as Cerebratulus bivittatus Ulyanina, 1870 (synonym)
  38. Species Lineus grubei (Hubrecht, 1879) accepted as Bilucernus grubei (Hubrecht, 1879) (unaccepted > superseded combination)
  39. Species Lineus gurjanovae Korotkevich, 1977 accepted as Lineus viridis (Müller, 1774)
  40. Species Lineus mcintoshii (Langerhans, 1880) accepted as Evelineus mcintoshii (Langerhans, 1880) (unaccepted > superseded combination)
  41. Species Lineus niveus Punnett, 1903 accepted as Cerebratulus niveus (Punnett, 1903) (basionym)
  42. Species Lineus uschakovi Korotkevich, 1977 accepted as Lineus viridis (Müller, 1774) (synonym)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Sowerby, J. (1805). The British miscellany; or, Coloured figures of new, rare, or little known animal subjects : many not before ascertained to be inhabitants of the British Isles: and chiefly in the possession of the author, James Sowerby. R. Taylor & Co., London, No.2: 13-21, pls.5-8., available online at http://dx.doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.41623
page(s): 15 [details] OpenAccess publication
Norenburg, J.; Chernyshev, A.; Kajihara, H.; Maslakova, S. (2025). World Nemertea Database. Lineus Sowerby, 1805. Accessed through: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvanitidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2025) European Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marbef.org/data/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=122358 on 2026-03-26
Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvanitidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2026). European Register of Marine Species. Lineus Sowerby, 1805. Accessed at: http://marbef.org/data/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=122358 on 2026-03-26
Date
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2004-12-21 15:54:05Z
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Gibson, Raymond
2020-01-24 19:39:27Z
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Norenburg, Jon
2020-01-26 16:07:48Z
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Norenburg, Jon
2024-10-28 02:19:23Z
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Kajihara, Hiroshi

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original description Sowerby, J. (1805). The British miscellany; or, Coloured figures of new, rare, or little known animal subjects : many not before ascertained to be inhabitants of the British Isles: and chiefly in the possession of the author, James Sowerby. R. Taylor & Co., London, No.2: 13-21, pls.5-8., available online at http://dx.doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.41623
page(s): 15 [details] OpenAccess publication

original description (of Borlasia Oken, 1815) Oken, L. (1815-1816). Lehrbuch der Naturgeschichte. Dritter Theil: Zoologie. <em>Erste Abtheilung: Fleischlose Thiere,Leipzig: C.H. Reclam & Jena: A. Schmid, [book (3rd vol part one, of 3 vols, including plates atlas of T.1, 1813].</em> xxviii + 842 pp. + xviii, 40 pls. L [copepods 180-184, 357-359, 4 plates]., available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.166403
page(s): 365 [details] OpenAccess publication

original description (of Ramphogordius Rathke, 1843) Rathke, H. (1843). Beiträge zur Fauna Norwegens. [Contributions to the Fauna of Norway]. <em>Nova Acta Academiae Caesareae Leopoldino-Carolinae Naturae Curiosorum, Breslau & Bonn.</em> 20: 1-264., available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.11613 [details] OpenAccess publication

original description (of Ophiocephalus Blainville, 1828) Blainville, H. M. D de [Henri-Marie Ducrotay]. (1828). Mollusques, Vers et Zoophytes <b>[entries in VEA-VERS, volume 57]</b>. <em>In: Dictionnaire des Sciences naturelles, dans lequel on traite méthodiquement des différens êtres de la nature, considérés soit en eux-memês, d'après l'état actuel de nos connoissances, soit relativement à l'utilité qu'en peuvent retirer la médicine, l'agriculture, le commerce et les arts. Suive d'une biographie des plus célèbres naturalistes.</em> vol. 57 [Tome LVII. Vea - Vers] F.G. Levrault, Strasbourg & Paris., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/25316522 [details] 

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

basis of record Gibson, R. (2001). Nemertini (Nemertae), <B><I>in</I></B>: Costello, M.J. <i>et al.</i> (Ed.) (2001). <i>European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels,</i> 50: pp. 152-156 (look up in RoR) [details] 

additional source Gibson, R. (2005). Nemertina DB. Liverpool John Moore University, UK. [details] 

additional source Hayward, P.J. & J.S. Ryland (Eds.). (1990). The marine fauna of the British Isles and North-West Europe: 1. Introduction and protozoans to arthropods. <em>Clarendon Press: Oxford, UK.</em> 627 pp. (look up in RoR), available online at https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198573562.001.0001 [details] Available for editors  PDF available
 
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To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Lineus) 
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Ophiocephalus) (from synonym Ophiocephalus Blainville, 1828)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Ramphogordius) (from synonym Ramphogordius Rathke, 1843)
To Genbank (from synonym Myoisophagos Riser, 1994)
To Genbank (from synonym Ramphogordius Rathke, 1843)
To Genbank 
To The Arctic Traits Database (0 traits) 
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Nemertea Collection (60 records) 
To Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History (YPM IZ 096339) 
To ITIS
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