Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Nemertea > Class Pilidiophora > Order Heteronemertea > Family Valenciniidae > Subfamily Baseodiscinae

Baseodiscus Diesing, 1850

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Polia*	Delle Chiaje, 1822	junior homonym
*Balanocephalus*	Kennel, 1891	synonym
*Eupolia*	Hubrecht, 1887	synonym

Children

Baseodiscus abyssorum (Joubin, 1902)
Baseodiscus delineatus (Delle Chiaje, 1822)
Baseodiscus filholi (Joubin, 1902)
Baseodiscus minor (Hubrecht, 1879)
Baseodiscus pellucidus (Kennel, 1891)
Eupolia trilineata Staub, 1900

Literature

original description	Diesing, C.M. [[Karl Moritz, usually as Latin C. M = Carolo Mauritio]. (1850). Systema Helminthum. Vol. I. [book]. xiii[xvi] + 679 pp.W. Vindobonae, Braumüller, Wien.
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	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.
additional source	Gibson, R. (2005). Nemertina DB. Liverpool John Moore University, UK.
additional source	Neave, Sheffield Airey. (1939-1996). Nomenclator Zoologicus vol. 1-10 Online. [Online Nomenclator Zoologicus at Checklistbank. Ubio link has gone].
taxonomy source	Kajihara, H.; Abukawa, S.; Chernyshev, A. V. (2022). Exploring the basal topology of the heteronemertean tree of life: establishment of a new family, along with turbotaxonomy of Valenciniidae (Nemertea: Pilidiophora: Heteronemertea). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 196(1): 503–548.

Genbank

Citation

Norenburg, J.; Chernyshev, A.; Kajihara, H.; Maslakova, S. (2025). World Nemertea Database. Baseodiscus Diesing, 1850. 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:122370