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Tetrastemma elegans (Girard, 1852)

159505 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:159505)

  1. Biota
  2. Animalia
  3. Nemertea
  4. Hoplonemertea
  5. Monostilifera
  6. Eumonostilifera
  7. Amphiporina
  8. Tetrastemmatidae
  9. Tetrastemma
  10. Tetrastemma elegans
accepted
Species
Tetrastemma Ehrenberg, 1831
marine, fresh, terrestrial
(of ) Girard, C. (1852). Descriptions of two new genera and two species of Nemertes. Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History, 4: 185-186 [details] Available for editors  PDF available
Norenburg, J.; Chernyshev, A.; Kajihara, H.; Maslakova, S. (2025). World Nemertea Database. Tetrastemma elegans (Girard, 1852). Accessed through: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvanitidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2025) European Register of Marine Species at: https://www.vliz.be/vmdcdata/narms/narms.php?p=taxdetails&id=159505 on 2026-09-18
NARMS (2026). Tetrastemma elegans (Girard, 1852). Accessed at: https://www.vliz.be/vmdcdata/narms/narms.php?p=taxdetails&id=159505 on 2026-09-18
Date
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2005-05-30 08:27:04Z
created
Claus, Simon
2005-07-01 09:15:20Z
changed
Gibson, Raymond

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

basis of record 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  PDF available

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  PDF available

additional source Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS). , available online at http://www.itis.gov [details] 

additional source Miner, R. W. (1950). Field book of seashore life. <em>G.P. Putnam & Sons.</em> 1-888. [details] 

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] 
 
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Unreviewed
remark species fragment easily when handled [details]
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English four-eyed nemertean  [details]
To Barcode of Life (7 barcodes) 
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (16 publications) 
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Tetrastemma elegans) 
To GenBank (22 nucleotides; 11 proteins) 
To ITIS