Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Nemertea > Class Pilidiophora > Order Heteronemertea

Lineidae McIntosh, 1874

Rank: Family
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Family group names

*Cerebratulidae*	Gibson, 1985	synonym
*Mixolineidae*	Gibson, 1985	synonym
*Paralineidae*	Chernyshev, 1995, stat. emend. Chernyshev, 1999	synonym

Children

Aetheolineus Senz, 1993
Amorphonemertes Cantell, 1998
Apatronemertes Wilfert & Gibson, 1974
Cerebratulus [Renier], [1804]
Diplopleura Stimpson, 1857
Euborlasia Vaillant, 1890
Evelineus Corrêa, 1954
Heteronemertes Chernyshev, 1995
Huilkalineus Senz, 1993
Junoya Chernyshev, 2025
Leucocephalonemertes Cantell, 1996
Lineopsella Friedrich, 1970
Lineus Sowerby, 1805
Micrura Ehrenberg, 1828
Micrurides Friedrich, 1960
Micrurinella Friedrich, 1960
Mixolineus Müller & Scripcariu, 1971
Nemertoscolex Greeff, 1879
Notospermus Huschke, 1830
Paracerebratulus Senz, 1997
Paralineus Schütz, 1911
Pontolineus Müller & Scripcariu, 1964
Pussylineus Corrêa, 1956
Quasimicrura Chernyshev, 2025
Riseriellus Rogers, Junoy, Gibson & Thorpe, 1993
Siphonenteron Renier in Meneghini , 1847
Tarrhomyos Riser, 1993
Tenuilineus Riser, 1993
Utolineides Senz, 1997
Zygeupolia Thompson, 1900

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Japanese: リネウス科

Literature

original description	McIntosh, W. C. (1873-1874). A monograph of the British Annelids. Pt. I: The Nemerteans. The Ray Society, 1873: pp. 1-96, pls. I-X; 1874: pp. 97-214, pls. xi.-xxiii
basis of record	Gibson, R. (2001). Nemertini (Nemertae), in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). 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, 50: pp. 152-156
additional source	Clarke, Andrew; Johnston, Nadine M. (2003). Antarctic marine benthic diversity. Oceanography and Marine Biology: an Annual Review. 41: 47-114.
additional source	Gibson, R. (2005). Nemertina DB. Liverpool John Moore University, UK.
additional source	Kajihara, H. (2022). Reversal of precedence for Lineidae McIntosh, 1874 over its senior synonyms Borlasiidae Diesing, 1862 and Nemertidae Ehrenberg, 1831 (Nemertea: Heteronemertea). Species Diversity. 27(1): 25–35.
additional source	Kajihara, H.; Smith, E. N. (2021). Case 3850 – Micruridae Dunn, 1931 (Reptilia, Serpentes) and Lineidae McIntosh, 1874 (Nemertea, Pilidiophora): proposed conservation by suppression of Micruridae Ehrenberg, 1831 (Nemertea, Pilidiophora). Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature. 78(2): 112–130.
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. Clarendon Press: Oxford, UK. 627 pp.

Genbank

Citation

Norenburg, J.; Chernyshev, A.; Kajihara, H.; Maslakova, S. (2025). World Nemertea Database. Lineidae McIntosh, 1874. Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:122314

Prof. Ray Gibson. Lineidae McIntosh, 1874. Accessed through: Fauna Europaea at https://portal.cybertaxonomy.org/fauna-europaea/cdm_dataportal/taxon/d8ffe3c5-4d94-449c-a64e-f6e2306779fc