Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Nemertea > Class Hoplonemertea > Order Monostilifera > Suborder Eumonostilifera > Infraorder Amphiporina > Family Prosorhochmidae

Prosorhochmus Keferstein, 1862

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Prosorhochmus adriaticus Senz, 1993
Prosorhochmus chafarinensis Frutos, Montalvo & Junoy, 1998
Prosorhochmus claparedii Keferstein, 1862
Prosorhochmus subterraneus Friedrich, 1949

Literature

original description	Keferstein, W. (1862). Untersuchungen über niedere Seethiere. Zeitschrift für wissenschaftliche Zoologie. 12(1): 1–147 plates 1–11.
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].
redescription	Gibson, R.; Moore, J. (1985). The Genus Prosorhochmus Keferstein, 1862 (Hoplonemertea). Journal of Zoology, London, Series A, 206(2): 145-162
taxonomy source	Maslakova, S. A.; Norenburg, J. L. (2008). Revision of the smiling worms, genus Prosorhochmus Keferstein, 1862, and description of a new species, Prosorhochmus belizeanus sp. nov. (Prosorhochmidae, Hoplonemertea, Nemertea) from Florida and Belize. Journal of Natural History. 42(17–18): 1219–1260.

Genbank

Citation

Norenburg, J.; Chernyshev, A.; Kajihara, H.; Maslakova, S. (2025). World Nemertea Database. Prosorhochmus Keferstein, 1862. 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:122410