MarBEF Data System - ERMS - Tetrastemma melanocephalum (Johnston, 1837)

WoRMS taxon details

Tetrastemma melanocephalum (Johnston, 1837)

AphiaID

122791 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:122791)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Parent

Tetrastemma Ehrenberg, 1831

Original name

Nemertes (Nemertes) melanocephala Johnston, 1837

Synonymised names

Borlasia melanocephala · unaccepted (synonym)

Borlasia melanocephala f. britannica · unaccepted (synonym)

Borlasia melanocephala f. suchumica · unaccepted (synonym)

Cephalotrix unipunctata Parfitt, 1867 · unaccepted (synonym)

Nemertes (Nemertes) melanocephala Johnston, 1837 · unaccepted

Nemertes melanocephala Johnston, 1837 · unaccepted (synonym)

Oerstedia puchella (Quatrefages, 1846) · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym

Ommatoplea melanocephala · unaccepted (synonym)

Planaria ascaridea Montagu, 1808 · unaccepted (synonym)

Polia pulchella Quatrefages, 1846 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym

Prostoma melanocephala · unaccepted (synonym)

Prostoma melanocephalum · unaccepted (synonym)

Environment

marine

Original description

(of Nemertes (Nemertes) melanocephala Johnston, 1837) Johnston, G. (1837). Miscellanea Zoologica. II. A description of some Planarian Worms. Magazine of zoology and botany. 1: 529-538., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/40029948 [details]

Taxonomic citation

Norenburg, J.; Chernyshev, A.; Kajihara, H.; Maslakova, S. (2025). World Nemertea Database. Tetrastemma melanocephalum (Johnston, 1837). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=122791 on 2025-04-10

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2004-12-21 15:54:05Z

created

Gibson, Raymond

2005-07-18 07:07:26Z

checked

Gibson, Raymond

Licensing

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Nomenclature

original description (of Polia pulchella Quatrefages, 1846) Quatrefages, A. (1846). Étude sur les types inférieurs de l'embranchement des annelés. Annales des Sciences Naturelles, Troisième Série, Zoologie. 6: 173–303., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/13408183
page(s): 214–215 [details]

original description (of Nemertes (Nemertes) melanocephala Johnston, 1837) Johnston, G. (1837). Miscellanea Zoologica. II. A description of some Planarian Worms. Magazine of zoology and botany. 1: 529-538., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/40029948 [details]

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 (look up in IMIS) [details]

Other

additional source Gibson, R. (2005). Nemertina DB. Liverpool John Moore University, UK. [details]

additional source Muller, Y. (2004). Faune et flore du littoral du Nord, du Pas-de-Calais et de la Belgique: inventaire. [Coastal fauna and flora of the Nord, Pas-de-Calais and Belgium: inventory]. Commission Régionale de Biologie Région Nord Pas-de-Calais: France. 307 pp., available online at http://www.vliz.be/imisdocs/publications/145561.pdf [details]

additional source Gibson, R. (2009). Phylum Nemertea: ribbon worms. In: Gordon, D.P. (ed.), New Zealand Inventory of Biodiversity Volume 1: Kingdom Animalia Radiata, Lopotrochozoa, Deuteromstomia. Pp. 362–368. [details]

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. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors

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Present

Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

From editor or global species database

Synonymy Polia pulchella (partim) = Tetrastemma melanocephalum [details]

Definitions

Language	Name
English	black-headed ribbonwormblack-headed nemertineblack head ribbon worm	[details]
German	Schwarzkopf-SchnurwurmSchwarzkopf-Nemertine	[details]

To Barcode of Life (10 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (18 publications) (from synonym Nemertes melanocephala Johnston, 1837)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications) (from synonym Ommatoplea melanocephala)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (23 publications)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (3 publications) (from synonym Borlasia melanocephala)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (3 publications) (from synonym Cephalotrix unipunctata Parfitt, 1867)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Tetrastemma melanocephalum)
To GenBank (18 nucleotides; 10 proteins)
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI)
To PESI
To ITIS