Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Nemertea > Class Pilidiophora > Order Heteronemertea > Family Lineidae > Genus Lineus

Lineus viridis (Müller, 1774)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Lineus*	Sowerby, 1805	accepted genus name
*Myoisophagus*	Riser, 1994	orthographic variant
*Borlasia*	Oken, 1815	synonym
*Heterolineus*	Friedrich, 1935	synonym
*Myoisophagos*	Riser, 1994	synonym
*Nemertes*	Cuvier, 1816	synonym
*Ophiocephalus*	Blainville, 1828	synonym
*Ophyocephalus*	Chiaje, 1829	synonym
*Poseidon*	Girard, 1852	synonym
*Ramphogordius*	Rathke, 1843	synonym

Species group names

*Fasciola viridis*	Müller, 1774	synonym
*Lineus gurjanovae*	Korotkevich, 1977	synonym
*Lineus uschakovi*	Korotkevich, 1977	synonym
*Poseidon viridis*	(Müller, 1774)	synonym

Vernaculars (+) (-)

English: green bootlace sources: Cole, T. C. H. (2017). Wörterbuch der Wirbellosen / Dictionary of Invertebrates. Latein-Deutsch-English. 2017. Springer Spektrum: Berlin. ISBN 978-3-662-52869-3. XII, 574 pp.

German: Grüne Nemertine; grüner Schnurwurm

Literature

additional source	Gibson, R. (2005). Nemertina DB. Liverpool John Moore University, UK.
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	Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).
additional source	Trott, T. J. (2004). Cobscook Bay inventory: a historical checklist of marine invertebrates spanning 162 years. Northeastern Naturalist. 11, 261-324.
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]. Commission Régionale de Biologie Région Nord Pas-de-Calais: France. 307 pp.
additional source	Brunel, P., L. Bosse & G. Lamarche. (1998). Catalogue of the marine invertebrates of the estuary and Gulf of St. Lawrence. Canadian Special Publication of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 126. 405 pp.
additional source	Cherneva, I. A.; Chernyshev, A. V.; Ekimova, I. A.; Polyakova, N. E.; Schepetov, D. M.; Turanov, S. V.; Neretina, T. V.; Chaban, E. M.; Malakhov, V. V. (2018). Species identity and genetic structure of nemerteans of the “Lineus ruber–viridis” complex (Müller, 1774) from Arctic waters. Polar Biology. 42(3): 497–506.
redescription	Krämer, D.; Schmidt, C.; Podsiadlowski, L.; Beckers, P.; Horn, L.; von Döhren, J. (2016). Unravelling the Lineus ruber/viridis species complex (Nemertea, Heteronemertea). Zoologica Scripta, 46: 111-126
biology source	Desor, E. (1848). On the embryology of Nemertes, with an appendix on the embryonic development of Polynöe; and remarks upon the embryology of marine worms in general. Boston Journal of Natural History, 6: 1-18

Genbank

Citation

Norenburg, J.; Chernyshev, A.; Kajihara, H.; Maslakova, S. (2025). World Nemertea Database. Lineus viridis (Müller, 1774). 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:122543