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

Lineus ruber (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 rubra*	Müller, 1774	synonym
*Planaria gesserensis*	Müller OF, 1784	synonym

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Danish: variabel slimbændel sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Dutch: rode snoerworm sources: Hayward, P.; Nelson-Smith, A.; Shields, C. (1999). Gids van kust en strand: flora en fauna [Coast and beach guide: flora and fauna]. Tirion: Baarn, Netherlands. ISBN 90-5210-327-5. 352, ill. pp.

English: red bootlace; red ribbon worm 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.

French: némerte rouge

German: rote Nemertine; Roter Schnurwurm

Literature

additional source	Gibson, R. (2005). Nemertina DB. Liverpool John Moore University, UK.
additional source	Thomas, M. L. H. (1983). Marine and coastal systems of the Quoddy Region, New Brunswick. Canadian Special Publication of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences. 64:1-306.
additional source	Bromley, J.E.C. & J.S. Bleakney. (1985). Keys to the fauna and flora of Minas Basin. National Research Council of Canada Report, Halifax, N.S. 24119: 366 PP.
additional source	Linkletter, L. E. (1977). A checklist of marine fauna and flora of the Bay of Fundy. Huntsman Marine Laboratory, St. Andrews, N.B. 68: p.
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	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	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.
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	Gosner, K. L. (1971). Guide to identification of marine and estuarine invertebrates: Cape Hatteras to the Bay of Fundy. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., London. 693 pp. [pdf copepod and branchiuran :445-455].
source of synonymy	Bürger, O. (1904). Nemertini. Das Tierreich. 20: 1–151.
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

Genbank

Citation

Norenburg, J.; Chernyshev, A.; Kajihara, H.; Maslakova, S. (2025). World Nemertea Database. Lineus ruber (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:122536