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

Lineus sanguineus (Rathke, 1799)

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

*Myoisophagos sanguineus*	(Rathke, 1799)	synonym
*Planaria sanguinea*	Rathke, 1799	synonym
*Ramphogordius sanguineus*	(Rathke, 1799)	synonym

Literature

original description	Rathke, J. (1799). Jattagelser henhorende til Indvoldeormenes og Bloddyrenes Naturhistorie. [Observations relating to the natural history of intestinal worms and bloodsuckers.]. Skrivter af Naturhistorie-Selskabet, Kiøbenhavn. 5 (1): 61-153, pl. 2-3.
basis of record	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	Pollock, L.W. (1998). A practical guide to the marine animals of northeastern North America. Rutgers University Press. New Brunswick, New Jersey & London. 367 pp.
source of synonymy	Gibson, R. (2005). Nemertina DB. Liverpool John Moore University, UK.
taxonomy source	Ament-Velásquez, S. L.; Figuet, E.; Ballenghien, M.; Zattara, E. E.; Norenburg, J. L.; Fernández-Álvarez, F. A.; Bierne, J.; Bierne, N.; Galtier, N. (2016). Population genomics of sexual and asexual lineages in fissiparous ribbon worms (Lineus, Nemertea): hybridization, polyploidy and the Meselson effect. Molecular Ecology. 25(14): 3356–3369.

Genbank

Citation

Norenburg, J.; Chernyshev, A.; Kajihara, H.; Maslakova, S. (2025). World Nemertea Database. Lineus sanguineus (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:148605