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

Valencinia longirostris Quatrefages, 1846

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Valencinia*	Quatrefages, 1846	accepted genus name
*Valencia*	(Quatrefages, 1846) sensu Koehler, 1885	synonym

Literature

original description	Quatrefages, A. (1846). Étude sur les types inférieurs de l'embranchement des annelés. Annales des Sciences Naturelles, Troisième Série, Zoologie. 6: 173–303.
basis of record	Gibson, R. (1995). Nemertean genera and species of the world: an annotated checklist of original names and description citations, synonyms, current taxonomic status, habitats and recorded zoogeographic distribution. Journal of Natural History. 29(2): 271–561.
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	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.

Genbank

Citation

Norenburg, J.; Chernyshev, A.; Kajihara, H.; Maslakova, S. (2025). World Nemertea Database. Valencinia longirostris Quatrefages, 1846. 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:122583