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WoRMS taxon details
original description
Kölliker, A. (1845). Lineola, Choraima, Polycystis, neue Wurmgattungen und neue Arten von Nemertes. Verhandl. d. schweizerischen naturforschenden Gesellschaft bei ihrer 29. Vers. zu Chur 1844, Chur 1845, 8, pp 96-98. [details]
original description
(of Polia involuta van Beneden, 1861) Beneden, P. -J. van. (1861). Recherches sur la faune littorale de Belgique. Turbellariés. <em>Memoires de l'Academie royale des sciences de Belgique.</em> 32: 3–56, 7 pls., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/32732165
page(s): 18 [details] 
original description
(of Polia xanthopila Giard, 1888) Giard, A. (1888). Le laboratoire de Wimereux en 1888 (Recherches faunistiques). [The Wimereux laboratory in 1888 (Faunistic research).]. <em>Bulletin Scientifique de la France et de la Belgique.</em> 19(3): 492-513.
page(s): 496 [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 IMIS) [details] Available for editors  [request]
additional source
Gibson, R. (2005). Nemertina DB. Liverpool John Moore University, UK. [details]
additional source
Gosner, K. L. (1971). Guide to identification of marine and estuarine invertebrates: Cape Hatteras to the Bay of Fundy. <em>John Wiley & Sons, Inc., London.</em> 693 pp. [pdf copepod and branchiuran :445-455]. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source
Pollock, L.W. (1998). A practical guide to the marine animals of northeastern North America. Rutgers University Press. New Brunswick, New Jersey & London. 367 pp., available online at http://books.google.com/books?id=i1AmT31cuR4C [details]
additional source
Muller, Y. (2004). Faune et flore du littoral du Nord, du Pas-de-Calais et de la Belgique: inventaire. [Coastal fauna and flora of the Nord, Pas-de-Calais and Belgium: inventory]. <em>Commission Régionale de Biologie Région Nord Pas-de-Calais: France.</em> 307 pp., available online at http://www.vliz.be/imisdocs/publications/145561.pdf [details]
additional source
Gosner, K.L. (1979). A Field Guide to the Atlantic Seashore. Invertebrates and Seaweeds of the Atlantic Coast from the Bay of Fundy to Cape Hatteras. <em>Wiley-Interscience, Boston.</em> 329pp., figs. 1-72, pls. 1-64. [pdf copepods only]. [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source
Norenburg, J. L. 2009. Nemertea of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 553–558 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas. [details]
source of synonymy
Bürger, O. (1904). Nemertini. <em>Das Tierreich.</em> 20: 1–151., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/898990 [details]
source of synonymy
Humes, A.G. (1942). The morphology, taxonomy, and bionomics of the nemertean genus Carcinonemertes. <em>Illinois Biological Monographs. University of Illinois Press.</em> 18: 1-105. [details] Available for editors [request]
Unreviewed
Diet parasitic on host [details]
Dimensions in males, length up to 25 mm and females up to 40 mm [details]
Distribution whole Atlantic coast [details]
Ecology on gills and eggs of crabs [details]
Habitat parasitic on crabs (on gills) [details]
Importance parasitic on commercial crabs (Ovalipes, Carcinus, Callinectes) [details]
Reproduction sexes are separate; fertilization is external for most species. Asexual reproduction also occurs by fragmentation [details]
Spelling In Müller (2004) as Carcinomertes carcinophila. [details]
remark species fragment easily when handled [details]
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crab nemertean |
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