original description
Diesing, C.M. (1850). Systema Helminthum. Vol. I. <em>W. Braumüller, Wien.</em> xiii[xvi] + 679 pp., available online at https://archive.org/details/systemahelminth00diesgoog/page/n5/mode/2up?view=theater
page(s): 241 [details]
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. <em>Journal of Natural History.</em> 29(2): 271–561., available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/00222939500770161 [details] Available for editors
source of synonymy
Gibson, R. (2005). Nemertina DB. Liverpool John Moore University, UK. [details]
From editor or global species database
Nomenclature Diesing (1850: 241) proposed Borlasia cephalothrix Diesing as a junior synonym of Cephalothrix coeca Örsted. The former is unavailable under Article 11.6 of the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature (4th ed.). [details]