Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Nemertea > Class Palaeonemertea > Order Archinemertea > Family Cephalotrichidae > Genus Cephalothrix

Cephalothrix linearis (Rathke, 1799)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Original genus

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Cephalothrix*	Örsted, 1843	accepted genus name
*Astemma*	Örsted, 1843	synonym
*Cephalotrix*	Oersted, 1844	synonym
*Procephalothrix*	Wijnhoff, 1913	synonym
*Procephalotrix*		synonym

Species group names

*Astemma longum*	Örsted, 1843	synonym
*Borlasia cephalothrix*	Diesing, 1850	synonym
*Borlasia linearis*	(Rathke, 1799)	synonym
*Borlasia longa*	(Örsted, 1843)	synonym
*Cephalothrix bioculata*	Örsted, 1843	synonym
*Cephalothrix caeca*	Orsted, 1843	synonym
*Cephalothrix coeca*	Örsted, 1843	synonym
*Cephalothrix lineatus*		synonym

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Japanese: ホソヒモムシ

Literature

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	Trott, T. J. (2004). Cobscook Bay inventory: a historical checklist of marine invertebrates spanning 162 years. Northeastern Naturalist. 11, 261-324.
additional source	Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).
additional source	Gibson, R. (2005). Nemertina DB. Liverpool John Moore University, UK.
additional source	Senz, W. (1993). Nemertinen europäischer Küstenbereiche (Nebst erganzenden Angaben zur Anatomie von Apatronemertes albimaculosa Wilfert & Gibson 1974). Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien Serie B Botanik und Zoologie., 94/95: 47-145
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.
redescription	Kajihara, H. (2019). Resolving a 200-year-old taxonomic conundrum: neotype designation for Cephalothrix linearis (Nemertea: Palaeonemertea) based on a topotype from Bergen, Norway. Fauna norvegica. 39: 39–76.

Genbank

Citation

Norenburg, J.; Chernyshev, A.; Kajihara, H.; Maslakova, S. (2025). World Nemertea Database. Cephalothrix linearis (Rathke, 1799). 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:122596