Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Nemertea > Class Palaeonemertea

Archinemertea Iwata, 1960

Rank: Order
Taxon Status: accepted

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Cephalotrichellidae Chernyshev, 2011
Cephalotrichidae McIntosh, 1874

original description	Iwata, F. (1960). Studies on the comparative embryology of nemerteans with special reference to their inter-relationships. Publications from the Akkeshi Marine Biological Station, 10: 1-51
additional source	Chernyshev, A.V. & Kajihara, H. (2019). Comparative muscular morphology in Archinemertea (Nemertea: Palaeonemertea). Zoomorphology. Vol. 138: 193–207.
taxonomy source	Magarlamov T.Yu., Chernyshev A.V., Turbeville J.M. (2018). Pseudocnidae of archinemerteans (nemertea, palaeonemertea) and their implications for nemertean systematic. J. Morph. Vol. 279. No. 10: 1444-1454.
taxonomy source	Chernyshev, A. V. (2011). Sravnitel'naia Morfologiia, Sistematika i Filogeniia Nemertin [Comparative morphology, systematics and phylogeny of the nemerteans]. Vladivostok, Dal'nauka. 1-309.
taxonomy source	Chernyshev, A. V. (1995). O vyssikh taksonakh nemertin s obzorom sistemy podklassa Anopla [On the higher taxa of the phylum Nemertea with the taxonomic review of the subclass Anopla]. Zoologicheskii Zhurnal. 74(1): 7–18.

Norenburg, J.; Chernyshev, A.; Kajihara, H.; Maslakova, S. (2025). World Nemertea Database. Archinemertea. 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:1451612